File:Rodney Carswell Martha 1977.jpg

Painting, Martha (acrylic and rhoplex on canvas, 65” x 68", 1977) by artist Rodney Carswell. Illustrates a key early period and type of work in Carswell's career before he gained widespread recognition, in which he used postmodern unstretched and shaped canvasses adhered directly to walls. These new works were instrumental to his breakthrough toward his mature style and have exhibited and discussed extensively.

Exhibition catalogue: Renaissance Society Chicago, 1995. Copyright held by the artist.

Rodney Carswell

Gallery view of entire artwork

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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 practice and technique: his unorthodox use of postmodern shaped and unstretched canvasses in the 1970s, a key stage in his development. 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 method in his art and his development. Carswell's work of this type and this work are discussed extensively in the article and have been discussed in detail by numerous art critics.

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.