File:Alice Dalton Brown Blues Come Through 1999.jpg

Painting by Alice Dalton Brown, Blues Come Through (oil on linen, 54" x 86", 1999). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's career beginning in the mid-1990s, when she shifted her perspective to depict views from inside houses looking out, most characteristically onto water scenes through open windows with diaphanous, windblown curtains. In this work, she depicts a scene of Lake Cayuga in New York's Finger Lakes, a frequent inspiration. Critics have noted such works for their play of light, texture and geometry, depictions of sun, weather and summer, and eye for the extraordinary amid the everyday. This 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 body of work in Alice Dalton Brown's career beginning in the mid-1990s: her large-scale, realist paintings of scenes from inside houses looking out, most characteristically with through open windows whose diaphanous, windblown curtains enlivened otherwise still, bare rooms with an implied human presence. These paintings often depicted lake scenes through architectural framing devices and emphasized an active play of light, shadow and geometry on curtains, walls, floors and water through reflection, refraction and distortion. In later versions, Dalton Brown often excluded any framing devices, placing viewers right over the water in otherworldly compositions that were grounded only by barely present kite- or sail-like curtains. 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 later stage and body of work, which brought Dalton Brown continuing 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.