Painting by Ethel Fisher, Fine Arts Building, Chicago (410 S. Michigan Avenue) (oil on canvas, 66" x 47", 1976). The image depicts a mid-career stage and distinctive body of work in Ethel Fisher's career that began in Los Angeles in the 1970s: her detailed architectural paintings of late-19th-century, ornate building facades, which brought new recognition, particularly on the West Coast. This work and similar works were exhibited in prominent venues in the U.S., discussed in major art journals and daily press publications cited in the artcle.

Artist Ethel Fisher. Copyright held by the artist's estate.

Ethel Fisher

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of presenting a mid-career stage and distinctive body of work in Ethel Fisher's career that began after her move to Los Angeles in the 1970s when she turned to detailed architectural paintings of late-19th-century, cast-iron building facades with Art Nouveau and Classical motifs. These largely monumental works focused on carefully recorded iconic, frontal views of ornate facades composed in tight, shallow space with grid-like, geometric organization that critics compared to Mondrian and Louise Nevelson. 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 key signature body of her work which attracted new attention, particularly on the West Coast. Fisher's work of this type and this work in particular was exhibited in prominent venues, 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 Ethel Fisher, 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.