File:Stone Roberts Grand Central Terminal.jpg

Painting by Stone Roberts, Grand Central Terminal: An Early December Noon in the Main Concourse (oil on linen, 74" x 76", 2009/2012). The image illustrates a key body of work in Stone Roberts's art in the 2000s, when he began producing his large-scale, street scenes of neighborhoods, parks, public markets and architecture in New York City and Rome. This painting, his first large architectural interior, depicts the famed Grand Central Terminal full of life, diverse activity and complex lighting. He approached the multitude of figures in a Bruegel-like manner—each one individualistic and of equal weight, highlighting the tension between anonymity and uniqueness in crowded urban spaces. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major collections.

Artist Stone Roberts. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a later body of work in Stone Roberts's career from the 2000s: his large-scale, street scenes, primarily of New York City and Rome, which extended the cityscapes glimpsed through windows in prior work to the whole canvas. These works captured the unplanned randomness of urban life with complex compositions of residential neighborhoods, parks and public markets filled with unposed figures that he assembled from photographs. 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 understand this key body of work, which brought Roberts further recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and acquisitions. Roberts's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

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