File:Ann Agee Woman with Camera and Pink Skirt 1998.jpg

Sculpture by Ann Agee, Woman with Camera and Pink Skirt (glazed porcelain, 6.75" height, 1996; Collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum). The image illustrates a major and distinctive body of work in Ann Agee's career that began in the mid-1990s, in which she reworked the classical 17th- and 18th-century genre of figurines into a modern idiom, expanding her reputation through exhibitions of brightly colored individual figures and groupings that depicted contemporary Manhattanites. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent art venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications by prominent critics, and acquired by museums.

Artist Ann Agee. Copyright held by the artist.

Ann Agee

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a major and distinctive body of work in Ann Agee's career that began in the mid-1990s and has continued throughout: her figurines, which rework a classical 17th- and 18th-century genre into a modern idiom through exhibitions of brightly colored individual figures and small groupings. Critics note the hand-sculpted figures for their careful observation, nuanced detail, and individuality of expression in portraying active, contemporary Manhattanites and articulating the triumphs, struggles and inventiveness of everyday life. 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 major, longstanding body of work in her career, for which she may be best known, and which attracted inclusion in major exhibitions, magazine spreads, national reviews, and museum acquisitions. Agee's work of this type and this work in particular 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 Ann Agee, 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.