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Untitled
194020th century
52 1/2 in. x 62 in. x 13 in. (133.35 cm x 157.48 cm x 33.02 cm)
Charles Biederman, American, (1906–2004)
Object Type:
Sculpture and Installations
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
painted wood and steel
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Lydia Hedin, class of 1933, and Raymond F. Hedin
Accession Number:
2000.016
Charles Biederman is a Minnesotan who makes his home in Red Wing. he was one of the first artists to work in a completely abstract geometric language as a way to responding to the dynamic forces that make up our world. It hangs in Carleton's Boliou Hall, a precocious example of modernist architecture on a rural college campus. The relief is a perfect fit with Boliou because its style and use of primary colors, particularly the bold use of red, complement the building's design.
This untitled piece is a gift from Lydia Hedin '33. Her husband, a doctor, commissioned the work to decorate the Interstate Medical Clinic, which in 1940 was one of the first modernist medical buildings in southern Minnesota.
- Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Calendar, 2005
This untitled piece is a gift from Lydia Hedin '33. Her husband, a doctor, commissioned the work to decorate the Interstate Medical Clinic, which in 1940 was one of the first modernist medical buildings in southern Minnesota.
- Laurel Bradley, Carleton College Calendar, 2005
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20th Century,
21st Century,
American*,
Contemporary*,
painting (coating)*,
sculpture (visual work)*,
steel (alloy)*,
three-dimensional*,
wood (plant material)*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- painting (coating) - The application of paint to a surface primarily for protection or to apply a general color. For the application of pigments to a surface to create an expressive or communicative image, use "painting (image-making)."
- sculpture (visual work) - Works of art in which images and forms are produced in relief, in intaglio, or in the round. It refers especially to those objects that retain the quality of being tangible objects or groups of objects. It refers particularly to art works created by carving or engraving a hard material, by molding or casting a malleable material, or by assembling parts to create a three-dimensional object. It is typically used to refer to large or medium-sized objects made of stone, wood, bronze, or another metal. Small objects are typically referred to as "carvings." As works become more diffused in space or time, or less tangible, use specific terms, such as "mail art" or "environmental art."
- steel (alloy) - Any of various hard, strong, durable, malleable alloys of iron and carbon, often with other elements such as manganese, chromium, nickel, molybdenum, copper, tungsten, cobalt, or silicon; widely used as a structural material.
- three-dimensional - Having, or appearing to have, the three dimensions of length, width, and height.
- wood (plant material) - The principal tissue of trees and other plants that provides both strength and a means of conducting nutrients. Wood is one of the most versatile materials known.
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Dimensions
- overall Dimensions: 52 1/2 x 62 x 13 in. (1334 x 1575 x 330 mm)