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Painting by Frances Barth, Untitled Ramble (acrylic on panels, triptych, 24" x 96", 2018). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Frances Barth's career from the 2000s: her paintings that bore the influence of new sequential media she was creating (videos, animations and a graphic novel) and mixed divergent syntactic codes, perspectives and scales. These paintings suggest a range of allusions—terrains, schematics, minimal abstraction—and (particularly in this work's triptych format) tensions between abstraction and narrative, and stillness and motion. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Frances Barth. Copyright held by the artist.

Frances Barth

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Frances Barth's career in the 2000s, when she employed what critics characterized as a dialectical approach mixing divergent syntactic codes, perspectives and unstable scales to produce paintings evoking mysterious terrains, geologic schematics, and near-minimal abstraction. These painting increasingly interaction with new sequential work she was creating—animations and a graphic novel—and explored and emphasized longstanding tensions at the core of her work between abstraction and narrative, and stillness and forward motion, according to critics. 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 layter stage and body of work, which brought Barth ongoing recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Barth'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 Frances Barth, 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.