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Print by Sylvia Solochek Walters, Women's Work is Never Done, woodcut, 14" x 27", 2008). The image illustrates a later period and body of work in Sylvia Solochek Walters's art in the 2000s, when she produced complex, collage-like prints that explore personal and metaphorical narratives involving rites of passage, loss, ritual, and animal and environmental issues. In prints such as this example, she subdivides picture planes into sections with specific patterns or colors, then overlays them with expressively drawn elements and motifs from nature, culture and art historical sources (here, Japanese woodcuts) in order to offer ironic takes on the uneasy relationships between humanity and work, nature, or imager. This series of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Sylvia Solochek Walters. Copyright held by the artist.

Sylvia Solochek Walters

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later period and body of work in Sylvia Solochek Walters's art in the 2000s: her complex, collage-like prints, which explore personal and metaphorical narratives involving rites of passage, loss, ritual, aging and healing, and animal and environmental issues. In these prints she often subdivides picture planes into sections with specific patterns or colors, then overlays them with expressively drawn elements suggesting snapshots and memories or images and motifs from nature, culture and art historical sources, such as Chinese pottery, Japanese woodcuts or Hebrew illuminated manuscripts. 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 development and distinct body of work in her art, which brought her wider recognition from art and daily press publications, juried exhibitions and museums. Walters'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 Sylvia Solochek Walters, 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.