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Painting by Pamela Helena Wilson, Marl Hill Baptist (oil and acrylic on linen, 24" x 30", 2019). The image illustrates a major body of work in Pamela Helena Wilson's career beginning in the latter 2010s, when she produced oil and acrylic paintings focusing on architectural structures referenced from archival photos. In this body of oil and acrylic paintings she depicted hazy apparitions of rural Southern churches (primarily clapboard siding, rooftops, steeples) in fields of shifting space and overlapping color areas that suggested states of order, disuse or vegetative overgrowth. These paintings were publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Pamela Helena Wilson. Copyright held by the artist.

Pamela Helena Wilson

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Yes. The image will not affect the commercial 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.

The image has contextual significance serving an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work in Pamela Helena Wilson's later career: her oil and acrylic paintings of the late 2010s and 2020s, which focused on architectural structures referenced from archival photos and explored themes of memory and the weight of history. The individual bodies of work often focused on structures from specific periods and locales: the 19th-century buildings of architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1970s East Germany or rural Southern churches, for example. 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 body of work and medium, which brought Wilson wide recognition through exhibitions in major venues, coverage by major critics and publications. Wilson's work of this type and this series, as well as this specific work, are 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 Pamela Helena Wilson, 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.