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Painting by M. Louise Stanley, The Mystic Muse and the Bums Who Sleep on the Golf Course Behind the Oakland Cemetery (watercolor, 11" x 15", 1970). The image illustrates a key early period and body of work in M. Louise Stanley's career, when she first gained recognition in the Bay Area in the 1970s for satirical figurative works depicting powerfully assertive, "brassy" 1930s-1940s-styled women and expressing feelings, fears and fantasies filtered through a feminist consciousness. This work and related works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in art and daily press publications, and works of this type have been collected by major art institutions.

Artist M. Louise Stanley. Copyright held by the artist.

M. Louise Stanley

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early period and body of work in M. Louise Stanley's career, when she first gained recognition in the Bay Area in the 1970s: her satirical figurative and narrative paintings (largely in gouache and watercolor), which depicted powerfully assertive, "brassy" 1930s-1940s-styled women and expressed feelings, fears and fantasies filtered through a feminist consciousness. These works drew on a wide range of influences—Bay Area funk and figuration, history painting, surrealism, urban street life, comics and popular media—to create socially engaged narrative work. 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 a key developmental phase in her art, which brought early recognition to her work and that of women from major art journals, daily press publications, and museums. Stanley'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 M. Louise Stanley, 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.