As a founding member and the organization’s first chairman, Balcomb Greene was a significant figure in the history of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) group. Painted a year after the group’s formation, "Six-Sided Planes" incorporates the minimalist color scheme and austere geometries that are characteristic of Greene’s early work. While the composition is abstract, the architectonic elements and industrial gray and blue colors evoke military or maritime structures. Although he was a leading voice for the strict observance of abstraction during his tenure with the AAA, Greene resigned from the organization in 1943 and began painting in a representational mode.