Susan Hettmansperger
American, 20th century
Chart Series No. 1
INV-5989
Susan Hettmansperger
American, 20th century1979
Chart Series No. 1
Susan Hettmansperger American, 20th century →drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
1979
Medium
Prismacolor crayon on ivory wove paper
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Kaye and Howard Haas
Long interested in topology, mapping, and distortion, as well as the morphology of form, Hettmansperger based the drawings in her “Chart Series” on navigational ocean charts she used while sailing on the East Coast. Reducing shapes and forms to abstract essences—open spaces in the drawing refer to distance—the artist was interested in creating metaphors for territory, or journeys in unfamiliar places.
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