of this Century Gallery in New York. She received the first prize at Cranbook Academy of Art Religious Art Exhibition, Bloomfield Hills Michigan (1969). In 1980, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1974, Weigand had a retrospective showing of her work at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery in New York. In 1982, she organized her first retrospective at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida. In the same year, she received an Honor Award and was exhibited in the Honor Award Exhibition at the National Women's Caucus for Art Conference in New York. Her work is still represented in more than 25 museums and permanent collections including the Andre Zarre Gallery, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, all in Manhattan, New York, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Newark Museum in New Jersey, and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York. She lived in an apartment in New York which was covered with her own and her friends' artwork and worked until she became very sick and her friend, a Buddhist refugee with whom she left most of her artworks , cared for until her death on June 9, 1983. See also Hard-edge painting Geometric abstraction Notes References Rembert, V. P.. (1983). Charmion von Wiegand's Way beyond Mondrian. Woman's Art Journal, 4(2), 30–34. http://doi.org/10.2307/1357943 Birmelin, B. T. (1985). Charmion von Wiegand at Marilyn Pearl. Art In America, 73154. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller Further reading Back to the Future: Alfred Jensen, Charmion von Wiegand, Simon Gouverneur, and the Cosmic Conversation, exhibition catalogue. Loyola University Chicago, 2009. External links American Abstract Artists Loyola University Museum of Art exhibition 1896 births 1983 deaths Abstract painters American art critics Artists from Chicago American women painters 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni