Artwork copyright Vidie Lange. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Wisconsin Window #6, 1980

Vidie Lange
American (born 1932, died 2016)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Photographer Vidie Lange hand-colored her photograph Wisconsin Window #6. This artwork has been included in exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum and the Bibliothèque National in Paris, France.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Viola “Vidie” Burden Lange (1932-2016) was a Boulder, Colorado-based photographer.
Born and raised in Iowa, Vidie Lange studied art and history at Clarke College (Dubuque, Iowa), the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Iowa. After moving to Colorado, she studied photography, video and computer imagery at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lange taught art and photography classes at Colorado Mountain College and at Lac Court Oreilles Indian Reservation (in Wisconsin). She established the Lumina Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, where she taught photography from 1977 to 1984. Her work is in many museum collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Denver Art Museum, and the New York Public Library, among others.