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Drawing by Margaret Cogswell, Views from a Puddle #02, watercolor and colored pencil on paper, 40" x 30", 2019). The image illustrates a key medium in Margaret Cogswell's career: her drawings, which beginning in the 2010s, played a more prominent role in oeuvre, in conjunction installations, video and audio. The drawings were generally executed in watercolor, ink, pencil and collage, and often mix abstraction and representation, examining such things as the vestiges of tidal flows and the beauty of disintegration found in rotting piers, ship remnants, detritus or water (here, puddles). This work was commissioned by museums, publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Margaret Cogswell. Copyright held by the artist.

Margaret Cogswell

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key medium in Margaret Cogswell's career—drawing, which was consistently interconnected with her "River Fugue" installations and other water-related works, particularly after the 2000s. These drawings were displayed in conjunction with sculptural installations, video and audio, and were created with watercolor, ink, pencil and collage. They often combined abstract and representational elements, including archival materials in some cases, in their examinations of the beauty and effects of water. 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 understand this key medium, which brought Cogswell ongoing and new recognition through coverage by major critics and publications and museum commissions and exhibitions. Margaret Cogswell'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 Margaret Cogswell, 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.