File:Frances Barth After Midnight 1997.jpg

Painting by Frances Barth, After Midnight (acrylic on canvas, 96" x 48", 1997). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work in Frances Barth's career from the 1990s: her more wide-ranging compositions (in this case, exploring verticality) that incorporated referential forms, allusions to landscape, and new spatial and graphic languages, including scientific forms and Japanese influences. Critics noted this work for its individuality and juxtaposition of decoration, carefully gridded organization and calligraphic spontaneity. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Frances Barth. Copyright held by the artist.

Frances Barth

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work in Frances Barth's career in the 1990s, when she expanded beyond her earlier horizontal paintings in more wide-ranging compositions that incorporated referential forms and markers, new spatial and graphic languages—aerial mapping symbols, schematic diagrams, perspectival rendering, modeling, and Japanese influences. These works counterpointed Western illusionism against modernist flatness, with Eastern inspirations borne out in the work's rudimentary landscape imagery, canted perspectives, balance of planar and linear elements, and economical palettes. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this early stage and body of work, which brought Barth ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Barth'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 Frances Barth, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.