User talk:Judy Seidman

I have just drafted as a subpage on my user page a possible entry on the artist Anita Parkhurst Willcox. I am convinced of the importance of this entry, based upon the quality, amount, content, and public recognition of her artwork, and her life story. However, I wish to flag my concerns about criteria for "notability"; and would welcome comments from any other Wikipedia readers. These issues are:

(1) upfront: Anita was my grandmother; and obviously this presumes element of personal interest. At the same time, I would argue, I am also a (woman) artist, consider myself a feminist, and believe that women artists in particular have been under-played in our art history (Anita Parkhurst Willcox's story being a case in point). I would want this story given prominence no matter what my relation to her was.

(2) Verifiable, published references to Willcox, both to her art and to her politics, are fairly numerous; yet these could be seen as "mentions" rather than substantive recognition. The only coherant summary of her life is at present her own memoires, which yes, I did edit, some twenty-odd years after her death. This is a now published book as a POD on Createspace, and is available as a publication through regular book outlets. Following publication, her life and work are the subject of a panel discussion at Boston University next week, organised by the Boston University Women's Group. (-I cite this as evidence that there is peer review/recognition of the contents, and it is not a vanity publication.

(3) Willcox's work as a cover artist for Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, McCalls, Screenland and other major national publications in the 1920s led to her being called one of the leading graphic artists of her time; this should perhaps give her "notability" equivalent to artists such as Norman Rockwell. Yet our art history discourse has "forgotten" her work (as it has many other women artists). Her commercial artwork is still widely available in print form; although a fair amount of it is not attributed to her name (for example, covers of Colliers that she did are often not attributed to her). (4) In her later life, during the McCarthy period, her political and pacifist beliefs led to being barred from public display of her work. Again, this is fully verifiable (the full McCarthy Committee hearing is archived by Yale; see note on sources attached to the draft article)

(5) Some parts of her story, as a woman activist and artist, are unique: for instance,she was one of precisely 8 American women supporting the US troops during World War I (not including nurses). (Again, this is verifiable and documented, in a reprinted book on Entertaining the troops published in 1921.) She attended, and sketched participants and delegates to, major peace conferences in India and China in the 1940s and 50s, as well as changing societies all over the world -- an astonishing artistic record. I would welcome responses from other users if this is indeed in line with the criteria for "notability"Judy Seidman (talk) 20:18, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Draft userified at User:Judy Seidman/Anita Parkhurst Willcox
Moving all drafts of article to User:Judy Seidman/Anita Parkhurst Willcox to ensure there is no confusion from multiple separate drafts floating around. Note that the entire history of a given page may be followed in its History tab, with every past version, so there is zero virtue and much risk in having duplicate drafts. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:56, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Feedback reply
Posted here: Requests_for_feedback/2011_April_23. MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:09, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

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This was uploaded under the wrong licensing conditions in error - with apologies; I have since reloaded a different version with correct (free use) licensing. Note that: the drawing and printed card was done by my grnndmother in 1926, and photographed by me in the course of publishing a book on her artwork; her heirs have collectively agreed that I should license as appropriate, in this case with a free license.

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On rechecking the licensing information, this was placed as "fair use" in error; it has now been changed to.

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