The phrase "a straightforward work of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a piece of writing, art, or any creative endeavor that is clear and uncomplicated in its execution or message.
Example: "The author presented a straightforward work of fiction that was easy to understand and engaging for readers of all ages."
Alternatives: "a simple piece of" or "an uncomplicated work of".
But this is no straightforward work of natural history with Fraser as heroic guide.
This is an expansive show, accompanied by a generally enlarging, if sometimes loopy catalog essay by Paul Hayes Tucker, a scholar of French Impressionism who states that Mr. Noland's best works "have a legitimate claim to being the cleanest, clearest, most straightforward works of art ever produced by an American painter".
With a data separation-and-mapping approach, replenishing data from a data source becomes a relatively straightforward work, in comparison to the task of curating and integrating data of different data sources with each data reload.
It can then be called play, meant in a straightforward sense of "not work", work being activity that is necessary for survival.
Indeed he has left himself an escape route for future productions of "El Niño": as it is an oratorio, not an opera, he can envision the piece as a straightforward concert work in the manner of Handel's "Messiah".
To let yourself just be with people... That, perhaps, that kind of straightforward work isn't OK to do now.
"House," though, is presented as a straightforward drama — a work of psychological realism — and yet what happens on it every week is completely, laughably out of the realm of human possibility.
Beyond Caring, for all the controversy it caused, remains his most straightforward book, a work of undercover reportage shot in dole offices throughout Britain.
Your subjects' connection with their patients is so brief — it's wham, bam, don't let the ambulance door hit you on the way out — that a straightforward presentation of their work won't satisfy the demands of hourlong prime-time story lines.
