18 x 24 inches, signed lower right: DeForrest Judd 1946; This painting by Judd, a study in Cubist abstraction, was painted in 1946, the year Judd moved from Colorado to Dallas to Teach at the Meadows School of Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Jerry Bywaters also gave Judd a solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, DeForrest Judd: Paintings, in November of 1946. Many Artists worked through the transition from realism to modernist abstraction by studying and emulating successful artist of their time. The goal was not to copy the masterworks by to learn structure and technique in the process of developing a personal style. This painting was the cover piece for the 1947-1948 Texas General Exhibition.