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= Article Selection =

Mary Abbott (artist) -start-class
John Russell (Australian painter) - start-class

René Auberjonois (painter) -start-class

Reason for Selections
My reasoning for selecting these articles is that a hobby of mine is looking into past artists and their art. As there is not a lot of academic articles applying directly to certain paintings and works of art, I choose to research artists that might not have a large Wikipedia page. All of the above have start-class pages but full academic articles pertaining to each one of them. There is plenty of outside knowledge about each of the three artists that should be used to expand Wikipedia's pages.

For Mary Abbott (artist,) I choose this article because she is an American artist who passed away last year. I had heard about her before but after her death I proceeded to look her up and learn more about her. A sad point on that journey was realizing her Wikipedia article was lacking. This inspired me to look for more articles of artists who are well-known in academic disciplines that could be talked about further on Wikipedia.

I also chose John Russell (Australian painter) because I learned about him through learning about Van Gogh. Russell was the first person to create an oil-painting of the famous artist, and I feel like there is not enough information about him present on Wikipedia. Everyone knows Van Gogh but what about one of his close friends, John Russell? I believe as much information is available on academic databases should be available on Wikipedia.

Rene Auberjonois (painter) intrigued me because he is not known as well as he should be. There is more knowledge of him in other smaller countries, mostly Switzerland. I believe anyone who goes on Wikipedia to search him should find more information.

Citations For Further Research
Mary Abbott (artist) -start-class

Dorfman, John. “Back to Nature.” Art & Antiques, vol. 37, no. 5, May 2014, pp. 40–44.

John Russell (Australian painter) - start-class

Thomson, Jody, and Bronwyn Davies. “Becoming With Art Differently: Entangling Matter, Thought and Love.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, vol. 19, no. 6, Dec. 2019, pp. 399–408.

René Auberjonois (painter) -start-class

“René Victor Auberjonois.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, Nov. 2019, p. 1.

List of Suggested Edits

 * 1) Create new sections in the original article so "Early Life" could perhaps be separate from "Life and Work"
 * 2) Take out the language calling his artwork "beautiful," could be considered biased in Wikipedia writing
 * 3) Make a new lead that isn't saying everything about the artist right away and will lead the reader better into the article
 * 4) Add more artwork from Russell from original sources found by me
 * 5) Add more about Russell as a person and his life rather than his artwork

Response to Peer Review
I think Dhocine did a great job at peer reviewing my article. I have been thinking about the best way to separate all the information in this article and I will be moving forward and making some sections in the original article. I also believe the lead is very confusing and it was something I wanted to fix. It gives all the information about the article in the first few sentences, letting readers not even have to read the entire article. It does not bring the reader in well. This is actually what drew me to the article because it seemed lackluster and not completed. The two tasks I will focus on now are fixing the lead of the article, and giving the articles sections to really bring it to life. The information is there but it is not visually appealing or easy to read.