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American Academy of Arts and Letters painting installation (2005) by Judith Murray picturing the works (left) First Light (oil on canvas, 96" x 108", 2004); and (right) La Forza de Destino (oil on canvas, 96" x 108", 2004). The image illustrates a key mid-career period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the 2000s, after she had eliminated hard-edged shapes and began producing paintings with more dispersed compositions that emphasized texture, atmosphere, and pulsating light through vigorous, feathered gestures creating mosaic-like surfaces. These paintings increasingly evoked the natural world—not literally, but as abstractly conveyed sensations (light, energy, sky, water, land, plants)—that critics described as revealing "romantic affinities" and a sense of urgency and drama. This body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent museums and venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Judith Murray. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the 2000s, after she had eliminated hard-edged shapes: her more lyrical paintings featuring dispersed compositions and a greater emphasis on texture, atmosphere, and pulsating light, which abstractly evoke the natural world. These works achieve equilibrium and coherent structure through dense, feathered gestures that create mosaic-like surfaces, a sculptural use of paint, and careful color organization. Critics describe them as revealing "romantic affinities" and a sense of urgency and drama. 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 mature phase and distinct body of work in her art, which brought greater recognition from museums, art journals, and daily press publications. Murray'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 Judith Murray, 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.