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Painting by Melissa Miller, Flood (oil on linen, 59" × 95", 1983. Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). The image illustrates an early stage and body of work in Melissa Miller's career that began in the early 1980s, and brought her national recognition, in which she painted scenes featuring animals in moments of apprehension, fury or joy, that were noted for their original content, formal concerns, and technique: expressive, varied brushwork, idiosyncratic color, and sense of light and pattern. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S., widely discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by major museums.

Artist Melissa Miller. Copyright held by the artist.

Melissa Miller (artist)

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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 an early stage and body of work in Melissa Miller's career that began in the early 1980s, and brought her national recognition, in which she painted scenes featuring animals (including exotic species) in moments of apprehension, fury or joy, that were noted for their original content, formal concerns, and technique: expressive, varied brushwork, idiosyncratic color, and sense of light and pattern. Critics related this work to other art including classical history paintings, Dutch still lifes, 19th-century naturalism, American luminism and regionalism, Sir Edwin Landseer and Henri Rousseau, and the Blue Reiter group. 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 traveling shows, national reviews, and museum acquisitions. Miller'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 Melissa Miller, 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.