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Work on paper by Ann Agee, Kitchen (acrylic on mulberry paper, 120" x 185" x 3", 2005). The image illustrates a major and distinctive body of work in Ann Agee's career that began in the 1990s and became more prominent in the 2000s, in which she created hand-painted and stenciled, large-scale "wallpaper drawings" on Thai mulberry paper. Her wallpapers, such as this skewed perspective of a kitchen and living room, celebrate everyday spaces and accessible, richly patterned, commercial products as objects of interest, much like the early work of Warhol or the interiors of Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein. 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 1990s and became more prominent in the 2000s: hand-painted and stenciled, large-scale "wallpaper drawings" on Thai mulberry paper. Her wallpapers, such as this skewed perspective of a kitchen and living room, celebrate everyday spaces and accessible, richly patterned, commercial products as objects of interest, much like the early work of Warhol or the interiors of Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein; they often comment ironically on the work, domestic life, gender and class, and museum display. In Agee's later installations of the 2010s, she often combines brightly colored wallpapers depicting views of rooms in her home, as environments for her fanciful handcrafted porcelain vases, figurines and objects to suggest sly reconstructions of her apartment as a site of both domesticity and production. 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, which attracted inclusion in major exhibitions, magazine spreads, national reviews, and museum commissions. 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.