File:Arthur Lerner Canyon Series V 1996.jpeg

Painting, Canyon Series V (oil on linen, 50" x 72", 1996) by artist Arthur Lerner. Illustrates a key mid-career period in his work when he shifted from figurative work to still lifes and landscapes, which were exhibited extensively.

Artist's website: http://www.arthurlerner.com/selected-work/landscapes/detail-pages/detail-landscapes-16.htm. Copyright held by the artist.

Arthur Lerner

Entire painting

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key element and critical shift in the artist's practice and technique: his change from figurative to landscape and still life paintings in the 1980s and 1990s. 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 visualize this shift in his art. Lerner's landscape paintings and their role in his development are discussed extensively in the article and have been discussed in detail by numerous art critics.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other landscape painting of the period by Lerner, 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.