Untitled (Textile Design No. VI)
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Another textile design from Hodgkins's time at the Calico Printers' Association, this one built from geometric shapes — half-circles, rectangles, triangles — in reds, oranges, pinks, browns, and chartreuse against a red ground, with faint pencil grid lines still visible beneath the paint. Hodgkins took the Manchester job in 1925 after decades of financial difficulty. She'd been the first woman to teach at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, had exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was still struggling to make a living. The textile work only lasted six months, but it kept her in England long enough to find the galleries and patrons who would eventually sustain her painting career.