File:Alice Dalton Brown Autumn Reverie 1998.jpg

Painting by Alice Dalton Brown, Autumn Reverie (oil on linen, 75" x 107", 1998). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's art beginning in the latter 1990s, when she shifted to views looking out of largely vacant houses through open doors, porches or windows. In these paintings, she emphasized an active play of light, shadow and geometry on curtains, walls, floors and through or on windows involving reflection, refraction and distortion. In this work, she emphasizes the house's architecture and the varying visual effects created by windows, within an elaborately conjoined triptych-like structure of transitional passage consisting of porch, doorway and interior. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by major museums.

Artist Alice Dalton Brown. Copyright held by the artist.

Alice Dalton Brown

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's art beginning in the latter 1990s, when she shifted the perspective of her work from looking at the exteriors of houses and their grounds to looking out of them to the outside, most characteristically with through open doors, porches or windows. In these paintings, she omitted people and furniture from her scenes so that viewers could fully occupy the spaces, often imbuing them with a sense of mystery. Her treatment of contrasting surfaces and textures and ephemeral phenomena (light, wind, water) play up oppositions between home and outside world, open and closed, soft and hard, solid or reflected form, obscured and visible, movement and stasis, order and disorder. 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 understand this early stage and body of work, which brought Dalton Brown early recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and eventual museum acquisitions. Dalton Brown'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 Alice Dalton Brown, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.