File:Judith Murray Inheritance 1988-9.jpg

Painting by Judith Murray, Inheritance (oil on linen, 72" x 76", 1988–9). The image illustrates a key transitional period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the later 1980s and early 1990s, when she introduced raised areas of thick pigment, layered underpainting and dappled, gently modeled figures and grounds into her spare, hard-edged geometric style. Critics noted these works for their contrasts of mysterious light and areas of blackness and dynamic versus subdued, gradually clarified forms. This body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent museums and venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Judith Murray. Copyright held by the artist.

Judith Murray (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key transitional period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the later 1980s and early 1990s: her more complex paintings introducing raised areas of thick pigment, layered underpainting and dappled, gently modeled figures and grounds into her previously spare, hard-edged geometric style. Critics noted these works for their rhythmic sense, contrasts of mysterious light and areas of blackness and dynamic versus subdued, gradually clarified form and identified in their idiosyncratic shapes inexplicable meanings that suggested the struggle toward consciousness. 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 visualize a key developmental phase in her art, which brought further recognition from art journals and daily press publications. Murray's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Judith Murray, 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.