by Glenn Gordon   January 1, 2005 After a long decline, Charles Biederman, one of the greatest and surely one of the most stubbornly principled Modernist artists, died quietly at home last Sunday afternoon at the age of 98. Entrenched for more than fifty years in an obscure farmstead off a dirt road on the outskirts of Red Wing, Biederman pursued his work with ferociously singleminded conviction…