File:Don Eddy C V II E Dreamreader 1984.jpg

Painting by Don Eddy, C/V/II E: Dreamreader (acrylic on canvas, 1984). The image illustrates a mid-career stage and body of work in Don Eddy's career in the 1980s, when painted his his "Dime Store" cycles, which reintroduced color, a Pop dimension, and new spatial experimentation into his work. These paintings shifted conceptually to questions about thought and experience, using compositions in which he intuitively selected and painted only sections with dime store toys, gumballs, and Disney characters that hovered, apparently weightless, over black voids more jarring scenes of landscapes, architecture and figures, as in this work which depicts his daughter. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S. and internationally, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Don Eddy. Copyright held by the artist.

Don Eddy

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career stage and body of work in Don Eddy's career in the 1980s: his "Dime Store" cycles, which reintroduced color and a Pop dimension into his work in the form of quickly chosen, inexpensive toys, gumballs, and Disney characters recognized from his youth. This work made a conceptual shift from perceptual issues to more profound questions regarding thought and the nature of experience and featured experimentations with compositions in which he intuitively selected and painted only what he deemed most compelling, yielding imagery that hovered, apparently weightless, over black voids suggesting memory or dream or more jarring scenes of landscapes, architecture and figures. Mixing mix man-made and natural, fantasy, reality and mystery, this work presages his more spiritual later-career work. 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 key, developmental phase in his art, which was exhibited in major venues, discussed by major critics and in books, and acquired by museums. Eddy'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 Don Eddy, 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.