File:David Ligare Penelope 1980.tif

Painting by David Ligare, Penelope (oil on canvas, 40" x 48", 1980. Collection: The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA). The image illustrates a key body of work David Ligare's art beginning in late 1970s when he shifted from drapery paintings alluding to the past to figurative works directly referencing classical themes and artworks. focused on archetypal, Arcadian landscapes melding his native California and the Mediterranean. This image represents his first fully-realized work in this vein, an iconic painting of a lone female figure seated in calm, patient introspection by the sea. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications and similar works belong to museums.

Artist David Ligare. Copyright held by the artist.

David Ligare

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key, longstanding body of work in David Ligare's career beginning in the late 1970s: his realist figurative paintings, which draw upon classical ideals of the human form and strict compositional arrangements derived from Renaissance and neo-classical paintings. Ligare often focused on archetypal, single women or athletic nudes that typified a classical idea or humanist moral principle also relevant to contemporary life. 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 understand this key body of work, which brought Ligare early and ongoing recognition through traveling exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Ligare's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by David Ligare, 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.