File:Judy Ledgerwood Composition in Pink, Brown and Violet 1992.jpg

Painting by Judy Ledgerwood, Composition in Pink, Brown and Violet (oil and wax on canvas, 90" x 144", 1992). The painting illustrates an early stage of Judy Ledgerwood's work in the 1980s and 1990s, when she painted largely monochromatic, monumental oil-and-encaustic works whose surfaces hovered between enveloping abstraction and irregular fields suggesting landscape. These works employed a feminist-critical strategy, appropriating from the sublime traditions of Romanticism and color-field painting. 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 Judy Ledgerwood. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating the early stage of Judy Ledgerwood's career, in which she first gained recognition in Chicago and then beyond for postmodern, conceptually oriented paintings that appropriated from the sublime traditions of Romanticism and heroic color-field painting. These paintings were largely monochromatic, monumental oil-and-encaustic works whose surfaces hovered between enveloping abstraction and irregular fields suggesting landscape, which critics suggested critiqued masculine discourses by restaging feminine-coded, domestic domains through color and mark-making in powerful, public formats. 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, which drew initial critical consideration. Ledgerwood'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 Judy Ledgerwood, 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.