Scope and Contents The drawing is a free-form design with Farsi letters rendered in different colored inks. She had her first comprehensive exhibition in the United States at the Guggenheim Museum from May to Jume 2015. Wikipedia: She is a contemporary Iranian artist who lives in Tehran and was a ollector of traditional folk art. Her artistic practice weds the geometric patterns and cut-glass mosaic techniques of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction. Born to educated parents in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran, Farmanfarmaian studied at the University of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine Art (1944-1946), before traveling to the United States on a steamer boat when World War II derailed plans to study art in Paris, France. In New York she studied at Parsons The New School for Design (1946"“1949) and Cornell University (1948"“1951), worked as a fashion illustrator, and was absorbed into the city's avant garde art scene, becoming friends with...

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The Sackner Archive hold one of Monir's calligraphic drawings purchased from the group exhibition, Calligraffiti, NYC 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.