User talk:Rennafire

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I noticed
that you placed Boardman Robinson in the Category:Artists of the American West and I am wondering why? I am no expert on his works, and yes, he did work on live in Colorado for a decade, but glancing through Christ-Janer's book on him reveals nothing that I'd consider to be Western Art except a few landscapes that I feel does not really put hin in the Artists of the American West category. I can probably be easily persuaded otherwise, but even that needs to be done. PS if you put something, anything, on your user page then your user name will appear as a blue link rather than a red one, marking you (opinion) perhaps as an editor whose work does not all have to be double checked. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 20:54, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Carptrash, I'm not familiar with this means of communicating, so this may not be the correct form for a response, but here goes. Robinson was in Colorado Springs as of 1930, and named to the position of director at the Broadmoor Art Academy the following year, a position he held for 17 years. (In late 1934, the Broadmoor Art Academy became the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.) In addition to his role as director, Robinson instructed artists and future instructors, and helped shape the artistic course of the region. Certainly, adding Boardman Robinson to the Category: Artists of the American West was a geographic choice more than a thematic one, based more on his work and influence in the region rather than his depictions OF the region. A knowledgable, art-professional friend suggests Robinson would better be called a "WPA regionalist." If the Artist of Western America designation seems incorrect, I/you/whomever should clearly remove that Category designation.