Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Aynscomb-Harris


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:34, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Martin Aynscomb-Harris

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Insufficient WP:RS with non trivial coverage to satisfy GNG or NARTIST. We have Who's Who, after the point at which it became a vanity publication. And an catalog of Royal Academy exhibitions that Verify an exhibition, but almost certainly would only be passing coverage. Of the solo exhibitions, none are at venues that are in themselves notable as art venues. Heal's is a furniture store, that also had a gallery - the gallery has a small section on the article that says the venue was significant between 1914-1939, at which point the subject was two years old. Ogilvy & Mather is an ad firm, that might have a gallery (it isn't mentioned on the article) but that gallery's notability isn't inherited. Lastly, Exhibition history includes Vanity Galleries. Yes, there is a chance of print sources from the 70's or 80's but I'm seeing very little evidence of that in my database searches. Who's Who is cited with the claim that he was in these collections: Oxfordshire Education Committee, The National Bank of Detroit, Marks & Spencer LTD, Holbourn Aeros, Cado Furniture, G Plan Furniture, Gatx Shipping, Metropolitan Water Board, Rank Leisure Hotels, British Airways, Chase Manhattan Bank. None of them are museums or galleries. We don't accept corporate collections as establishing N. Theredproject (talk) 22:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete I have not found good coverage, but there is some evidence of him being a "reputable" artist. The National Gallery of Canada started a file on him. And there is this painting listed in Art-uk.org, but it is not in a museum collection. The Who's-who encyclopedia listings look a little dubious to me as I saw the same listing twice in differently titled encyclopediae. I'll bet that an old newspaper search would turn up items. At the moment, GNG fail. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ThatMontrealIP (talk • contribs)
 * That artist file is an interesting find. It prompted me to check the collection itself, but he isn't in there . Theredproject (talk) 00:12, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Nope, I would not expect him to be. That Artists in Canada listing has a lot of people in it. I think it is run out of the National Gallery Library. It's probably 10M away form the curatorial office there, but 100KM away in terms of selectivity. On a practical level it just tells you who has a file on the artist, and perhaps a few biographical details. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 00:16, 5 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Not finding any WP:RS. I checked Newspapers.com but nothing there. Curiocurio (talk) 00:31, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SIGCOV. Who's Who in Art is not reliable; it's like Who's Who Among Teachers. (Wait, did I just dis myself?) Bearian (talk) 02:28, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Insufficient reliable sources indicating subject's reliability. Andrew327 14:27, 11 June 2020 (UTC)


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