Paris
1956 · Lithograph
composition (irreg.): 21 1/8 × 15 1/4" (53.7 × 38.7 cm); sheet: 25 7/8 × 19 11/16" (65.7 × 50 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Loren MacIver
American, 1909
WA-00028286
PaintingSurrealism
Representation
None documented
23
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
16
Assets Indexed
3
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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America Seen: Between The Wars
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Art Lending Service Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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Polio Poster Competition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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New York Private Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
No image
Loren MacIver Mural Paintings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948
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Fourteen Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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What is Modern Painting?
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945
Field Verification (3 fields)
3 cross-verified · 0 single-source
- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Loren MacIver was an American painter whose delicate, jewel-toned compositions drew from everyday urban and domestic subjects magnified to monumental scale. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she created intimate abstractions rooted in observed detail, a sidewalk crack, a puddle, a storefront, transformed into intricate, rhythmic fields of color and texture. Her work emerged in the postwar period as a distinctly lyrical alternative to both gestural abstraction and rigid geometric formalism. MacIver's paintings balance precision with spontaneity, rendering the overlooked and marginal as subjects of sustained aesthetic contemplation.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Surrealism
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Artworks (7)
Artwork sources (2)
7 published of 13 catalogued · 13 with image
- MoMA6 publishedof 12 catalogued12 img
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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