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Painting by Betsy Kaufman, Wavers Landscape (56" x 78", 2008). The image illustrates a key mid-career phase in Betsy Kaufman's art from the 1990s and 2000s when she produced abstract paintings that combined modernist, hard-edged geometric formalism with varied, disruptive painterly effects, emotion and humor. As in this image, these paintings often deployed the gird structure less as a means to regularity or seriality than as a vehicle for disruption and unpredictability, through skewed lines, an overlay of divergent (yet exacting) systems, and simultaneously mathematical and poetic effects. This body of work and individual piece were publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed by critics in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Betsy Kaufman. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career phase in Betsy Kaufman's art from the 1990s and 2000s: her abstract paintings which combined modernist grids and other hard-edged geometric formal elements with varied painterly effects, disruption, emotion, humor and narrative. Often compared to the minimalist work of Agnes Martin, these paintings relied upon simple means—geometric shapes, lines, bands and grounds—using finely calibrated differences in brightness and hue to achieve states of density, dissolution and movement. 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 key later body of work and medium, which brought Kaufman later recognition through exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Kaufman'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 Betsy Kaufman, 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.