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Summary

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Description

Painting by Helen O'Leary (Untitled, oil on linen, 72" x 72", 1989). The painting illustrates a key early period in Helen O'Leary’s work in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when she gained recognition in Chicago for large-scale, fragmented abstract paintings created by laying canvas on the floor, capturing drips, mistakes and overshot gestures normally bound for floorboards. This work and similar works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Source

Artist Helen O'Leary. Copyright held by the artist.

Article

Helen O'Leary

Portion used

Entire artwork

Low resolution?

Yes

Purpose of use

The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Helen O'Leary’s career the late 1980s and early 1990s: her large-scale, fragmented abstract paintings riffing on "heroic" abstract expressionism. She made them by laying canvas on the floor, capturing drips, mistakes and overshot gestures normally bound for floorboards, creating lattice-like forms whose improvised look was likened to early works of Kandinsky. 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 this key developmental phase in her work and its impact. O'Leary’s work of this type gained notice in Chicago for is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

Replaceable?

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Helen O'Leary, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

Other information

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.

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