File:Barbara Grad Fruit of the Vine 1996.jpg

Painting, Fruit of the Vine (oil on linen, 48” x 72”, 1996) by artist Barbara Grad. The painting illustrates a key mid-period phase and body of work in Barbara Grad’s career during the 1990s when she returned to organic abstraction with works highly influenced paintings by nature and pastoral scenes in the Northeast, and gained recognition in the East. These works were exhibited extensively and reviewed in numerous art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Barbara Grad. Copyright held by the artist.

Barbara Grad

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-period phase in Grad’s career, in the 1990s: her return to organic abstract that were more nature-influenced, after a period of exploring representational city scenes and figurative work. These works were a departure from earlier landscape works in their emphasis on growth, rebirth and seasonal passages. 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 body of work and important phase in her art. Grad’s work of this type and this painting in particular is discussed in the article and both were reviewed and shown extensively in art journals and news periodicals.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Grad, 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.