Charmion Von Wiegand
Telescopic Forms
1945
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Charmion Von Wiegand
Telescopic Forms
1945
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor and pen and ink on paperboard, 19 1/4 × 15 in. (48.9 × 38.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Sigmund M. and Mary B. Hyman Fund for American Art
Object Number
2021.173
Journalist, art critic, and self-taught artist Charmion von Wiegand also served as a writing translator for Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) in the 1940s. From her 1945 Improvisations series, von Wiegand’s Telescopic Forms takes Mondrian’s characteristic grid and gives it movement and life by injecting curved forms. In the words of the artist, “…The curve belongs to organic and natural life and relaxes and rests us for this reason.”
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 03
