File:John Wesley Daddy's Home 1972.jpg

Painting by John Wesley. Daddy's Home (acrylic on canvas, 39" x 65", 1972). The image illustrates a key earlier body of work in John Wesley's career in the 1970s when his painting shifted toward domestic scenarios and an approach characterized by freer use of line, more open compositions, and intensified color palettes. This work frequently examined gender relations, paternal power and mortality, as in this painting, in which Wesley duplicated a gleeful daughter figure five times, the repetition transforming an expression of delight into one that seemed to suggest an unsettling grimace and dependence as a weapon. Works from this body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired major art institutions.

Artist John Wesley. Copyright held by the artist.

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating an earlier body of work in John Wesley's career in the 1970s: his paintings which shifted in subject matter from historical figures, personified animals and nudes toward domestic scenarios that examined gender relations, paternal power and mortality. Critics characterized this work In formal terms by a freer use of line, more open compositions, and intensified color palettes dominated by candy pinks, baby blues, flesh beiges and hospital greens, while noting its use of humor, ambiguity and double meaning. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this stage and body of work, which brought Wesley greater recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications, and museum acquiaitions. Wesley'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 John Wesley, 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.