Monochrome In Yellow (Horizovia Abstraction In Yellow)
Year: 1953
Type: Painting
Catalog #: SF_0933
Current Location:
Heckscher Museum of Art
Exhibition History:
“Rediscovering Slobodkina: A Pioneer of American Abstraction,” Heckscher Museum, Huntington NY, Dec 2008-Mar 2009,
Samuel P. Harn Art Museum, Gainesville, FL, Jun 16 – Sept 6, 2009;
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, Oct 1 – Dec 29, 2009.
Sheldon Museum of Art, Licoln Nebraska, Jan-April 2010.
Dimensions:
30 1/2 x 43 1/4
Slobodkina’s sister Tamara requested that her sister paint a large work in beige tones which Tamara could hang over her faux fireplace in her 68th Street apartment in NYC. “Monochrome In Beige” was the first in a series of Slobodkina monochromes initiated by that request.