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#254-1960
1960 · Cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, shoe lace, and blue fibers on paper on gray board
21 1/4 x 11 3/8" (54.1 x 29.1 cm) (includes mount)
Museum of Modern Art
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Charmion von Wiegand
American, ?–1983
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11
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Mondrian: New York Studio Compositions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
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American Collages
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961–1962
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The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Charmion von Wiegand was an American abstract painter and theorist whose work synthesized geometric abstraction with spiritual philosophy. Active from the 1930s onward, she developed a visual language of interlocking planes and luminous color fields informed by her study of Theosophy and non-Western cosmologies. Her paintings combine rigorous formal structure with a metaphysical intent, treating abstraction as a vehicle for invisible spiritual truths rather than pure formal investigation.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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