Hunt Slonem Hutch Monday For Sale

About this work

Hunt Slonem stands as one of the most recognizable and commercially successful Neo-Expressionist painters working today. His work resides in over one hundred museum collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Slonem's distinctive visual vocabulary, developed over five decades, has secured his position as a blue-chip artist with consistent demand across both primary and secondary markets. Hutch Monday exemplifies Slonem's celebrated exploration of the rabbit motif, a subject that has become synonymous with his artistic identity. Rendered in oil on canvas at thirty by thirty inches, the work presents the artist's characteristic approach to portraiture through layered, gestural brushwork and a richly textured surface. The hatched vertical striations that define Slonem's backgrounds create an almost vibrational quality, suggesting both the bars of a cage and an abstract field of pure chromatic energy. The rabbit itself emerges from this dense visual environment with an almost totemic presence, its form simplified yet psychologically resonant. Slonem's devotion to this subject derives from his personal menagerie, where he has kept hundreds of rabbits over the years, studying their forms and temperaments with the dedication of a naturalist. This intimate familiarity translates into works that transcend mere animal portraiture, becoming meditations on repetition, spiritual symbolism, and the act of looking itself. Created in 2025, Hutch Monday represents the continued vitality of Slonem's practice and his ongoing refinement of themes that have defined his career. For acquisition inquiries regarding this work by Hunt Slonem, please contact Guy Hepner.