Charlotte Lindgren

b. 1931, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - April 19, 2023

Charlotte Lindgren’s Winter Tree was featured in the acclaimed Canadian Fine Crafts exhibition at Expo 67 and reflects the artist’s ongoing interest in architecture.

Woven flat on a loom in purple wool—a colour chosen for its clarity, weightlessness, and timelessness—the weaving’s three-dimensional form was not realized until hung. Although by this time based in Halifax, Lindgren’s Winnipeg years (1956–1963) played a pivotal role in her development. While working as a design lecturer in the Home Economics department at the University of Manitoba, Lindgren took instruction in weaving from her colleague Lillian Allen. A series of wall hangings created prior to her move to Halifax in 1964, drew the attention of American textiles doyen Jack Lenor Larsen, leading to an invitation to the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. Lindgren went on to represent Canada twice at the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial (1967, 1969) and to teach at the Banff Centre in the 1970s.