When she returned to New York in 1932, she began painting landscapes. In 1931-1934, Von Wiegand became the second wife to the communist activist and co-founder of the journal "New Masses" Joseph Freeman, to whom she remained married until his death. She wrote a sequence of fourteen art criticism reviews for "New Masses", became editor for "Art Front", the magazine of the Artist's Union, and several other publications including "Federal Art Project (FAP)", "New Theatre", "ARTnews", and "Arts Magazine". Von Wiegand herself believed she should not involve herself in too much in politics due to her art, but her critiques often implied a leaning towards Marxism as she claimed the best art was made from the rising class. Her exception was Pablo Picasso, whose works of art she admired yet believed to be confused in ideologies, regressive and lacked humanism.