File:Leigh Behnke Light Study with Venetian Blinds 1981.jpg

Multi-panel painting by Leigh Behnke, Light Study with Venetian Blinds (oil on wood panel, 15" x 82", 1981); destroyed September 11, 2001 in World in Trade Center, Collection of Brown and Wood. The image illustrates an early stage and body of work in Leigh Behnke's career in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when she produced formally focused, multi-paneled, meticulously rendered conceptual paintings based on her own photographs of interiors and still lifes. 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 Leigh Behnke. Copyright held by the artist.

Leigh Behnke

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an early stage and body of work in Leigh Behnke's career in the 1970s and 1980s: her formally focused, multi-paneled, meticulously rendered conceptual paintings based on her own photographs of interiors and still lifes. These investigations of color theory and changing light (e.g., the "Time Sequence" and "Light and Intensity Variation" series), in which she carefully manipulated variations in light, perspective and arrangement to examine their effects on color, form, and composition, often drew comparisons, in formal terms, to Minimalist art. 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 attracted exhibition selections in major traveling shows, national reviews, and museum acquisitions. Behnke'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 Leigh Behnke, 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.