Artist and craftswoman CONSTANCE von BRIESEN (1915–2000) lived for nearly 50 years in Southern California, making her home in Rustic Canyon. In her watercolors, drawings, and paintings, von Briesen offers an exquisite close-up view of the California terrain, capturing creeks, root systems, bare trees, and drought-stricken desert.
In this interview, exhibition curator and Weisman Museum director Andrea Gyorody speaks with von Briesen’s surviving children—Linda Fates, Constance (Connie) von Briesen, Jr. (’77), Derek von Briesen, and Jill Walsh—about their mother’s life and work on the occasion of her first solo museum exhibition.
