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Whitney Museum of American Art painting installation (1979) by Judith Murray picturing the works (left) Red Angle (oil on canvas, 60.5" x 64.5", 1978); and (right) Broadway (oil on canvas, 60.5" x 64.5", 1978). The image illustrates a key early period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the later 1970s, when she produced modestly sized, spare works in the hard-edged abstract tradition. These works featured irregular geometric forms—compared to sails, wings, kites, moons, exotic sea creatures or decadent, even dangerous, spiky plants—in reds, opaque whites and yellows floating on sensuous, black fields and explored problems of balance and stability without relying on symmetry. This body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent museums and venues, discussed widely in national art and daily press publications, and collected by major art institutions.

Artist Judith Murray. Copyright held by the artist.

Judith Murray (artist)

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early period and body of work in Judith Murray's career in the late 1970s and early 1980s: her modestly sized, spare works in the hard-edged abstract tradition, featuring irregular geometric forms. This work was sometimes likened to Russian constructivism due to its complex, energized compositions, explorations of explored of balance and stability, and eccentric forms (compared to sails, wings, kites, moons, exotic sea creatures or decadent, even dangerous, spiky plants), painted in reds, whites and yellows on black fields. 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 a key developmental phase in her art, which brought early recognition from museums, art journals, and daily press publications. Murray'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 Judith Murray, 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.