File:Rodney Carswell Jan 19 (09) 2009.jpg

Painting, Jan 19 (09) (oil on canvas, 32” x 27”, 2009) by artist Rodney Carswell. Illustrates a key late period and type of work in Carswell's career after he gained widespread recognition, in which he moved away from assembled and shaped canvasses of past work to create smaller, more immediate paintings. These new works are instrumental to his current direction and have exhibited and discussed publicly.

Artist Rodney Carswell, 2009. Copyright held by the artist.

Rodney Carswell

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key element and critical moment in the artist's late practice and technique: his shift away from postmodern shaped and unstretched canvasses, a key break with his past work. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this method in his art and his development. Carswell's work of this type and this work are discussed in the article and have been discussed elsewhere.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Carswell, 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.