Felt sculpture by Arturo Herrera, Each Other (wool felt, 213 x 111 cm, 2002. Linda Pace Foundation Collection). The image illustrates a key body of work from in Arturo Herrera's career: his large felt sculptures, which extended his collage-based approach to new, often more abstract and minimal work in new mediums. Critics described felt sculptures such as this work as melting, web-like abstractions that flirted with legibility and suggested tactile, Abstract Expressionist emblems through incised shapes resembling drips and splatters. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and commissioned by major institutions.

Artist Arturo Herrera. Copyright held by the artist.

Arturo Herrera

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work from throughout Arturo Herrera's career that began in the mid-1990s when he extended his collage-based approach to new, often more abstract and minimal, bodies of work including felt sculptures and objects. His large felt sculptures—first produced in 1998—suggested tactile, emblems of "heroic" Abstract Expressionist paintings with incised shapes resembling drips and splatters, while simultaneously deflating that movement with a pinned, slightly sagging appearance implying a fall from grace. 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 fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Herrera early and ongoing recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Herrera'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 Arturo Herrera, and the work no longer is viewable, 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.