Underpinning this piece are the influences of the two love interests of the artist, Arshile Gorky and Wilfred Zogbaum. In the 30s, Matter's work started to possess intense colour, visual symbolism and complex composition. ⁠⠀
Here we can see the emergence of the abstracted still life that often appears in the artist's canvases. The viewer is faced with the common objects that dynamically dance off the table and across the picture. Matter plays masterfully with the sharpness and smoothness of the abstract shapes executed in her signature green, red and blue pigments and intersected by sharp lines.⁠⠀