Hidden Red

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Hidden Red

Artist Esphyr Slobodkina (American, 1908-2002)

Dateabout Late 1930s

DimensionsPainting: 32 × 36 in. (81.3 × 91.4 cm)
Frame: 40 1/2 × 44 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (102.9 × 113 × 3.2 cm)

MediumOil on masonite

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Woodward Foundation, by exchange

Object number

2005.108

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 07

Label TextFollowing the Russian Revolution, Esphyr Slobodkina immigrated to New York in 1928 and immersed herself in the New York vanguard artistic scene. In 1933, Slobodkina married fellow Russian immigrant abstract painter Ilya Bolotpwsly. Together they helped found the American Abstract Artists (AAA) in 1937. Slobodkina had an early interest in collage which is evident in Hidden Red. Here she layered painted forms like cut-paper collage, creating an evocative, Cubist-inspired composition that explores a flattened pictorial space that nevertheless seems three-dimensional.