 Painted in oil on canvas and nearly monochromatic, the allegorical composition depicts two headless nudes in a mysterious setting amid still life elements.The painting is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York.In November 1933 Dickinson decided to put aside his large painting "Woodland Scene", which he had been unable to bring to a satisfactory resolution, and began a new painting—his largest—that he eventually gave the neutral name of "Composition with Still Life".