File:Arthur Lerner Descent 2001.jpg

Painting, Descent (oil on linen, 60" x 62", 2001) by artist Arthur Lerner. Illustrates a key late-career period in his work when he shifted back to figurative work, depicting mummies and myths, from still lifes and landscapes. These new works were exhibited and reviewed extensively.

Artist's website: http://www.arthurlerner.com/selected-work/mummies-and-myths/detail-pages/detail-mummies-and-myths-8.htm. Copyright held by the artist.

Arthur Lerner

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key element and critical shift in the artist's practice and technique: his shift back to figurative work, depicting mummies and myths, after doing landscapes and still lifes in the 1990s and 2000s. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this shift in his art. Lerner's later figurative paintings are discussed extensively in the article and have been discussed in detail by numerous art critics.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other landscape painting of the period by Lerner, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.