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Painting by Olive Ayhens, Camelid in the City (oil on linen, 51" x 39", 2019). The image illustrates a key late-career body of work by Olive Ayhens from the latter 2010s when she produced expressionistic, surreal paintings (most prominently in her "Urbanities and Ur-Beasts" exhibition of 2019) collapsing nature and the built environment. The work often depicted a contemporary world teeming with strange creatures, as in this work, in which a prehistoric mammal perches on the banks of an acid-green East River, its yellow-orange hide echoing the glinting lights of a distant Manhattan skyline. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Olive Ayhens. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key late-career body of work by Olive Ayhens from the latter 2010s: her expressionistic, surreal paintings most prominently gathered together in her "Urbanities and Ur-Beasts" exhibition (2019). These works collapsed nature and the built environment and often depicted apocalyptic, contemporary cityscapes teeming with strange, primeval creatures or panoramas overrun by rising ocean levels and overall calamity. 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, foundational body of work, which brought Ayhens early recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Ayhens'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 Olive Ayhens, 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.