Description
Offered here is an original Hilda Skolnick collage depicting an abstract still life of vessels in the Cubist style. It is entirely made from different textures of artist’s linen, painted warm white, then affixed to a linen canvas on a stretcher. It is in its original distressed white frame. The overall size is 20 × 28 inches. The title is “Still Life.” Circa 1958.
Purchase from the estate of her friend Piry Rame. These women were members of a cooperative of female avant-garde artists based on Long Island. They exhibited widely. In the late 1960s the A.I.A. Gallery in Great Neck was one venue, a bit like P.S. 1.
“The experimental nature of Hilda Skolnick’s goals link her work to avant-garde sensibilities.”—The New York Times, 1987.
“Hilda Skolnick’s untitled etching is a particularly successful example. The piece is a composite of abstract shapes, dominated by a split circle and dart-like form, oriented in different directions and varied in texture and density. Instead of simple repetition, Ms. Skolnick has given us subtle variations on a basic theme..” —The New York Times, 1990.
