Painting by Eleanor Himmelfarb, Ephemerae III (acrylic on canvas, 42" x 42", 1993). The painting illustrates a mid-career body of work in Eleanor Himmelfarb's career in the 1990s, when she created highly personal, often surreal paintings referencing natural and human iconography. This painting and body of work was exhibited in notable shows and has been discussed by art professionals in art historical publications.

Artist Eleanor Himmelfarb. Copyright held by the artist's estate.

Eleanor Himmelfarb

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career period in Himmelfarb's career when she painted highly personal, often surreal works, employing gestural brushwork and free-floating imagery in fractured space and referencing natural and human iconography related to the life cycle and the interconnectedness of the universe. 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 visualize this key phase in her work. Himmelfarb's work of this type and this painting in particular is discussed in the article and by art historians cited in the article, as a representative work of this phase.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Eleanor Himmelfarb, 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.