Color Counterpoint

Charmion von Wiegand

1956

  • Titles Color Counterpoint (Title)
  • Artist Charmion von Wiegand, American, 1896 - 1983
  • Medium collage
  • Dimensions 5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in. (14 × 9.8 cm) frame: 12 × 10 9/16 in. (30.5 × 26.8 cm) frame (outer shadow box): 16 × 14 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (40.6 × 36.2 × 6.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Isadore Pizitz, 1958.68
  • Work Type collage
  • Classification Collage

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Three Black women are taking care of two white children. From left to right, a woman is embracing a child, the woman at the center turns her back, and a woman bends down toward the second child.
The work features four primary areas of color: an area of red on the right side of the paper, a small purple triangle adjacent to an irregular white space on the lower left side of the paper, a small dash of orange paint above the red area surrounded by a partial black oval, and a blue and green irregular rectangle next to a patch of peach on the left side of the paper. Each area of color is surrounded by black lines, ranging in thickness and size. The background is painted white.
Two birds stand on a pile of dark rocks that sprout mushrooms. The birds look upwards with open beaks to an insect flying above them. Both birds are covered primarily in black and cream feathers and characterized by their black speckled chests.
Union Pacific R.R. Passenger Depot, United States, pencil