Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Louisa Fennell


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The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) czar ♔   09:43, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Louisa Fennell

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Tagged for notability since 2009. I don't believe she meets WP:ARTIST. I thought she might meet #4 but the link to wakefield art gallery is dead and she isn't listed on their site Gbawden (talk) 07:12, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. AllyD (talk) 10:26, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: There appears to be a publication by Wakefield Museum in 1978 entitled Louisa Fennell of Wakefield and Her World, 1847-1930. AllyD (talk) 10:35, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep (ec) The article is not good, but she seems to have been given her own exhibition, with a printed catalogue of 14pp, at the Wakefield Museum in 1978 Louisa Fennell of Wakefield and Her World, 1847-1930, 48 years after her death. That's enough for me. We might ask User:PatHadley, who can probably access a copy and improve the article, which is not great. She seems to have been a watercolourist and printmaker - nothing on Your Paintings (oils only), which also doesn't list the Wakefield Museum, though it covers the Town Hall etc (see West Yorkshire). Plenty of works show up on auction sites, confirming the drift of the article. Johnbod (talk) 10:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I've re-jigged the article, and found a couple of references, as all the links were dead or irrelevant. diff. The Hepworth Wakefield seems to hold the Civic collection now, plus prints held in the libraries. I note google have one of their infobox thingies for her, using Wikipedia, which in itself suggests notability to me. Johnbod (talk) 11:02, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. Google found a short article about her from 2005 in the Wakefield Express, which gives Worthies of Wakefield by Kate Taylor (Wakefield Historical Publications 2004; ISBN 978-0901869463) as its source, and tells us that "Exhibitions of her work were held at Wakefield Art Gallery in 1930 and 1950 and at Wakefield Museum in 1978". Together with the exhibition catalogue mentioned above, this seems just about enough to meet WP:ARTIST#4 and the WP:GNG. Qwfp (talk) 19:09, 20 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, but the article still needs major clean-up. Fennell has had several retrospective shows after her death and her work, in its time, was well known. How many current artists will still be having retrospectives 48 years after their deaths, I wonder... Sionk (talk) 16:02, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
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