“This is a tiny little thing with the old-fashioned telephone sign…On this were based a number of paintings…I did those between doing my bookkeeping and answering phones and doing everything in the office [William Urquhart’s office]. I was really working the materials that came across my desk. These were old fashioned telephone bills with these blue telephones…I use anything I feel like” (Slobodkina Interview, March 26, 1991, Tape II, Side I).
“This collage, much in the vein of Kurt Schwitters, assembles random detritus into a concise composition that is intriguing not only for its modernist reachings but also as a time capsule for the age in which it was created.” Harold Porcher

Study for a large painting entitled “Broadway Corners” owned by Eleanor Tessler.