User talk:BoringHistoryGuy

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas BoringHistoryGuy!!


Hi BoringHistoryGuy, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,
Thanks for all your help and contributions on the 'pedia! ,
   –Davey2010 ^{Merry Xmas / Happy New Year} 13:22, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

	Holiday barnstar
	You deserve a holiday barnstar, but this barn flake was as close as I could come. And best holiday wishes to you. Thank you for making Wikipedia a better place. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:29, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

I Second That Emotion ! Carptrash (talk) 18:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 04:14, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Merry, merry Christmas

Peace on earth, goodwill to all mankind

Smallbones_(smalltalk) 04:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

@Davey2010: @7&6=thirteen: @Carptrash: @Bzuk: @Smallbones:

Thank you merry gentlemen. I wish the best to each of you, also. I just got home from midnight mass, and am renewing my acquaintance with Jack Daniel's. Cheers! ==BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 05:52, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

Raleigh C. Gildersleeve

Faculty supervision of collegiate athletics

Any idea who this architect might be? As far as I can tell he built a couple of buildings around the Princeton campus about 1900, including the Campus Club. The reason I ask is that he must have had a remarkable sense of humor. His gargoyles include the Prof-football player confrontation pictured, and on the same doorway what appears to be 2 young ladies showing off their backsides. Any help appreciated. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 18:31, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Smallbones. I'd never heard of him (and at first thought this might be a joke). PAB has very little on him: https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm/720731

I know Edward Maene's studio carved the gargoyles at Penn. He was used by Cope & Stewardson, Wilson Eyre, and other architects.

Hope you had a nice Christmas. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 00:10, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@Smallbones: The Field Guide to Architectural Sculpture in the United States is copying this picture and is very interested in any more information you might have on it and others on the same building. The Princeton Eating Club does not show up in either The Gargoyles of Princeton University or the companion The Spires of PU However Gildersleeve, a name that sounds a lot as if it came out of a student comic review, does show up in the gargoyle tome as being the author of McCosh Hall, (1907), which seems to have many similar gargoyles. Which are actually grotesques. Carptrash (talk) 18:21, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

It is surprising

that there is not a good book on George Grey (Gray?) Bernard (Barnard?). I have a book dedicated to his standing Lincoln, which was quite a controversy in its day, but nothing even as good as the article you have created. Carptrash (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: Thank you for the compliments. "Grey" (with an E) was his grandmother's maiden name.

Thanks for finding the Armory Show references, I never would have thought to look there. His work was modern sculpture of the time, and some critics saw him as the heir to Saint-Gaudens. A shame that he spent so much of his later decades on projects that never came to fruition—giant head of Lincoln, Rainbow Arch, etc.

Barnard had me so obsessed that I never wished a Happy New Year to the scores the people who helped me or improved articles that I worked on in 2017. Something I should remedy. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:38, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I found the Armory connection years ago while tracking down the Prodigal Son I stumbled across in Louisville. It bubbled up through my gray matter (grey matter?) after watching you kick A on that article. Carptrash (talk) 18:01, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The list of works is good, but the article needs a lot more fleshing out. Especially, the last 2 decades of his life. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:05, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks kindly...

Portrait of George Grey Barnard (1890) by Anna Bilińska.

...for your lovely fox, and for the reminder of what we're supposed to get falling tonight.

Two things: one, I treated myself to this for Christmas - $60 on Amazon, if you're interested. It's a fascinating read, though full of errors; even so I've been using it as a source to create some articles on DC's artistic scene. Very useful.

Two (and pinging Carptrash to the conversation as well): funny to see George Grey Barnard mentioned, especially as I stumbled across his name in something I was reading last night. He was friends (nothing more, to my knowledge) with Anna Bilinska, who was the subject of my senior project in college. In my research on her I turned up mention of a portrait she had done of him around 1884 or so that had been sent to his family home in Chicago from Paris; I lost trace of it after that. Long story short, it's now in the collection of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and I really ought to pay it a visit. Something for later in the year, perhaps... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Carptrash was just commenting (see directly above) that there is no good biography of Barnard. His Pennsylvania State Capitol sculpture groups became a national joke when legislators ordered plaster of Paris pants to be applied to the male nudes. Then his gawky Lincoln was attacked. He went from being the heir apparent to Saint-Gaudens to semi-obscurity. Carptrash found that he exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show, but no (completed) major works in the last 2 decades of his life.

From the b&w photos I've seen, the Bilinska portrait appears to be extraordinary, Barnard holding his own in the foreground as his Two Natures looms around him. I remember that the PA State Museum closed in a cost-cutting measure several years ago. I think it now may be open with restricted hours.

I got the catalogue to World War I in American Art for Christmas, and bought myself First Modern, a history of PAFA's building. I've flipped thru them, but haven't sat down to read them. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:36, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice - I hadn't realized the museum had had issues. When I finally get around to it I'll give them a call. What I would love to do, ultimately, is to develop an exhibit of her work, possibly for the National Museum of Women in the Arts...don't know how much standing I'd have as a semipro historian, but I'd love to try. She really was an extraordinary artist - we were in Krakow, a few years ago, and her self-portrait is on display there in the museum at the Cloth Hall. My father commented at the time that it stood out - it's much the finest work on display. Lots of her stuff in Warsaw, too, if you ever have a chance to visit.

I got the sense that Barnard devoted a lot of his later years toward medievalism, rather than sculpture - I believe his collection was the lion's share of the basis for the Cloisters in New York. Or am I off-base there? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:04, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I am getting green with envy reading about all these great reads. I first got interested in Washington DCs arts while visiting the city in 1969 and have gone back several times over the decades. So @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: I am looking for so good additions from you. PS you are right about the Cloisters, no surprise there. Carptrash (talk) 18:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: I've done a few (Susan Brown Chase, Lola Sleeth Miller, Bertha E. Perrie, Mary Gine Riley, Clara Hill), with more to come; I know of at least four artists with semi-major local connections that we are yet lacking (Richard Norris Brooke, Edmund C. Messer, James Alexander Simpson, and Ulric Stonewall Jackson Dunbar). Fodder for a little bit later in the year, perhaps. Most had ties to the late, lamented Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. *sob* --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:17, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: You're right on target. And the cloister at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was bought from Barnard. Subsequent research determined that the Met and PMA each got the other's fountain, but they decided not to switch.

Let me post an image of the Bilinska portrait (just b&w). == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:19, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

My version of history (always suspect) is that Barnard started collecting architectural fragment (some quite large) while finding himself poverty stricken in Europe, as an attempt to earn money. When there was little interest in them he developed some major backers who helped set up the Cloisters. I think he found himself financially embarrassed in many different continents. But I should reread the excellent wikipedia article on him before making too many more claims. Carptrash (talk) 18:25, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

I've only ever seen the portrait in black and white. When it was carted west across the Atlantic it pricked the interest of a couple of papers - one in Chicago and one, if memory serves, in Pennsylvania. (Memory may not serve - it's been the better part of fifteen years since I looked at the documentary material.) Beyond that and an illustration, it was all I could dig up in Poland in 2005. Seems to have been the extent of her American adventures, too - she spent the bulk of her career in France and exhibited quite a bit in England. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 18:28, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: @Carptrash: Found it. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 19:18, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Huh. 1898 - wonder where it was then. At any rate, it seems like he kept it with him for the rest of his life, which is nice to know. :-) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:10, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: I think this photograph was taken in his parents' house, which might have been Kankakee, Illinois. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:16, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

That squares with the information I remember from my earlier research. I believe that the documentation I found indicates that it was sent to his parents' house after painting...at the time, I believe they lived on Lake Shore Drive.

Let me look later this week...I still have digital copies of everything somewhere at home. I may be able to find the relevant clipping. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Lake Shore Drive might be right. Once his minister father retired, his parents may have left Kankakee.

Congrats on the interview. I enjoyed reading it. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Glad you enjoyed. And thanks for the walk down memory lane...I really need to do something with all of that work from college. *sigh* --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:30, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: According to the catalogue of the 1963 Barnard centennial exhibition, the portrait was hung in his parents' house in Madison, Indiana (gotta love the deer head).[1] Curious that the catalogue describes the portrait as "lost." And nice that it gives its date as 1890. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:07, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

'Smatter, you don't like a little venison with your paintings?

1890 is quite possible...as I say, it's been a few years since I looked at the documentation. As for "lost", I suspect that just means they didn't look as hard as they should have in the right places. Though I will admit to more than a little sympathy; when I was researching her in 2005, I, too, was prepared to call the painting "lost". The internet has really changed research for the better in that regard.

I also suspect that a lot of her known paintings are "lost" in the same way. They're out there, but because she's not a particularly well-known artist, people are sitting on them without any interest in doing anything about them. She isn't even the subject of that much literature, really. And most of that is within the broader context of women artists of her era. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:39, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: As a habitual oversharer on Wikipedia, I'd urge you to hold onto your work and do something major with it. To quote Fats Waller: "Don't, just, give it away . . . . . . . Get cash for your trash!" == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Well, hers is one article I haven't edited yet...not much. She kept a scrapbook for much of her too-brief career, and I have a digitized copy of it, courtesy of the Jagiellonian University (which holds the original.) One of these days I need to find a way to couple with a museum to see what can be done with it. It's a fascinating document - I'd love, ideally, to see some kind of publication put together. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:28, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Good. I hope you do it. I love it when artists create portraits of other artists. They're showing off to some extent, and the results are often among their best and most sympathetic work. The ambition of Bilińska's Barnard portrait is wonderful—a young Hercules having vanquished his giant. Maybe she was inspired by his own outsized ambition. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 18:14, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

She's a fascinating artist, to me; she came of age at a pivotal moment in Poland's artistic development, when a lot of her contemporaries were turning away from the old-fashioned genre realism espoused by French academics and towards a new marriage of Polish history/culture and forward-looking artistic techniques. A lot of her contemporaries, who lived in Krakow, were fascinated by Symbolism, Impressionism, varieties of post-Impressionism...meanwhile she remained in Paris for the bulk of her career, producing excellent genre work and the like. She was an avowed anti-Impressionist (her letters home attest to this), and as she lived abroad she was otherwise insulated from the artistic developments at home. Interestingly - and I never pursued this point much further - near the end of her life, soon after her marriage, she returned to Poland with her husband...but to Warsaw, not to Krakow. Krakow was the home of the avant-garde, and I've always found it interesting that she decided to return to the capitol instead.

A phenomenally interesting artist, appreciation of whose work is hampered, I think, by the fact that what she did has fallen out of fashion and still doesn't seem, to me, to have regained the popularity it deserves. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 19:00, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Is this the self-portrait that so impressed your dad? I live in Philadelphia, so we have a long tradition of realistic portraiture, PAFA, and, of course, Eakins. This feels very familiar. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

That's the one. Probably her best-known. If you're interested in it, and in women artists more generally, I highly recommend Frances Borzello's book Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits. She discusses it among many other works, and makes some interesting points. (Like that, mentioned in the article, about the artist-as-model.)

This was my own first introduction to her art - my grandmother had a postcard of it in a box of Soviet postcards that she brought when she emigrated. I had the chance to see it when I was in Warsaw in '05; today it hangs over the chief curator's desk at the Narodowe Muszeum, and they don't know what to do with it. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 20:11, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: It's a terrific portrait, and your family's tradition of appreciating Bilińska is neat.

Eakins studied under Gerome, and remade the school at PAFA in the 1870s, modeling it on the École des Beaux-Arts. Things went well for a decade, until the notorious "loincloth Incident." I have a friend who did either her master's or PhD on the École's teaching methods. I'll ask her about Bilińska. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:10, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Well, to be fair - I think she just brought whatever boxes of postcards she could with her. That was one of...a thousand, easy. Mostly Russian stuff, or stuff from Russian collections.

Bilinska was actually a student at the Académie Julian - she may have been affiliated with the École des Beaux-Arts at some point, but I'm not sure. I remember that Julian would allow select students to pay for their tuition in work rather than money, if they were poor and he felt they were worth it, and he felt she was. She tutored one of the beginner classes for a time, after her father died and left her destitute. That was also after the rheumatic fever...and the death of her fiance... --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:27, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

@Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Still. I'll ask my friend. She's an expert on the period, especially American expatriates. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Oh, please do - I wonder if her name crops up in connection with any others besides Barnard. Most of the literature I referred to upthread is about women students at the Julian - she's often front and center in those discussions. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:09, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Belated best wishes for a happy 2018

Same to you!!! Thanks for the note. FieldMarine (talk) 19:45, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

• More same to you. Thanks for the image. Hmains (talk) 03:45, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

• Likewise. MinorProphet (talk) 03:54, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Greetings

Same to you! It is quite the publication. I have yet to read through all the essays, but will. Have been writing about the life of Mrs. Coates. The holidays have been a distraction, but I plan to pick up the pace again soon. Lots to read on that particular time period in Philadelphia history in order to complement the scant information available on the poet! Best in the New Year, Londonjackbooks (talk) 15:33, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

P.S. The name Furness may be familiar to you. I have just recently finished proofreading Frank Furness' brother Horace Howard Furness' oration, "On Shakespeare, or, What you will" at Wikisource. You are more than likely familiar with Frank as architect of PAFA et. al. Londonjackbooks (talk) 15:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

@Londonjackbooks: Thank you for the greetings. "World War I in American Art" is approaching the end of its U.S tour. Although, I think the Sargeant is going to stay on in Kansas City, Missouri thru the summer. I also haven't made it thru all the essays.

My favorite professor from university is an authority on Frank Furness, and the co-author of the PAFA book. His biography of FF is coming out next month, what I hope will be the culmination of a 46-year career. The Furness family was quite extraordinary—4 generations of notable accomplishment.[2] Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 16:52, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

The source for Furness

Hey BHG. I was doing some article cleanup on the articles in the scope of WikiProject Shakespeare and ran across some text on Horace Howard Furness that is tagged as lacking cites. On looking over the revision history, it looks like you added the text in question in an edit back in 2008 (and the following couple edits). Is there any chance you recall, or is able to dig up, what the source for these claims was? There are now lots of instances of people copying that text from our article, so Google isn't being particularly helpful. In any case, I figure it's a long shot, but worth a try. Glad to see you're still around! --Xover (talk) 15:52, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

@Xover: Thanks for the heads-up. I have no doubt that the statements are factual, but WHERE did I find them? I was a lot less scrupulous about sources a decade ago. I'll keep looking. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 21:16, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. The wording suggests that you're paraphrasing there, so I had a hope it might be possible to trace where it came from. --Xover (talk) 11:22, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Muhlenberg portrait

Very nice work. It's one of my favorite portraits in the Portrait Gallery collection. Incidentally, his brother wagged his pow not too far from here during the Revolution - out in Woodstock. There's a memorial to him on the courthouse porch, if I remember correctly. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:15, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

It's exciting to hear about the pendant. I didn't realize The Speaker's House was being restored for museum purposes, so I'll have to add it to my list of places to visit one of these days. Shouldn't be too much of a drive from here.

Speaking of...one of these summer weekends I want to check out the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown. Ever been? --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 03:31, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Three hours? Feh, that's nothing. Used to go to Mercersburg for cross-country in high school. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Depends on where and when. I spent a little more than a week driving through the deep South last year. I spent a lot of that time on the interstate, which wasn't as much fun as I'd have liked. But I really enjoy the kind of back-road driving I was able to do in North Carolina. That's where a lot of the most interesting history is, after all. Same kind of thing I do driving around Fairfax County from time to time, actually. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 16:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, by the end of the trip I'd been able to push most of the interstate driving to evenings and nights. I started one day in the Anniston, Alabama area - hit Freedom Riders National Monument, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, a couple of back-county towns, and was in Atlanta at nightfall. After dinner I carried on through to Spartanburg, South Carolina. The next day I hit a couple of sites in Spartanburg before heading to Hickory, North Carolina. Traversed Alexander County in search of the one National Register site therein, and found the grave of a Continental Congressman before I was back on the interstate. Kept going until Harrisonburg, Virginia that night. I don't actually mind, as long as there's something there to see. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:56, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

Master planner? You don't know me vewwy weww, as the little yellow bird used to say. The right things just fell together by the end of the trip. Besides, I have the advantage of traveling solo and so not having to worry too much about anyone's schedule other than my own. Gives me a lot of flexibility. Sorry you missed the fundraiser, but hopefully you'll have a chance to see the museum once it's been opened. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:47, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Well, it's a good story - it's always nice to find a painting that was considered lost. Don't know if larger fry would consider it, though...I'd love to see something like that in the Post, but I'm not holding my breath. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:54, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Category:People associated with George Washington has been nominated for discussion

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Fatland (Audubon, Pennsylvania)

I see this is all your doing--fascinating stuff. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:56, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: Thanks. I'm a sucker for a building with a good story. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:06, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Me too. Now this one, Sancaklar Mosque, is fairly new so it doesn't have much story yet--but I wonder, since you know buildings and how to write articles on them, if you can add to it. I'm sure there's a DYK in the making. (There's a picture on Commons but it's slated for deletion given unclear copyright status...) Thanks, Drmies (talk) 17:13, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

@Drmies: If you think this building is extraordinary, research the hell out of it and make your case as to why. Having an image is extremely important. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:46, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

for the "thanks"... I am so rarely at WP, but I get notifications from sister projects at Wikisource—where I primarily reside. I was glad to be able to add an image of Caroline Furness Jayne, who Florence Earle Coates knew and wrote a poem about. Hope all is well! Londonjackbooks (talk) 22:48, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

@Londonjackbooks: Things are fine in Philadelphia. I didn't know about the Chase portrait. Thanks for posting it.

After Caroline's death, HHF commissioned a Tiffany window for the First Unitarian Church (his father's church). The memorial window features a portrait of Caroline:[3]

I should get down there and take a photograph of it. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:02, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

another wikiWonder

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for all your hard work at List of American painters exhibiting at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The average wikiclod such as myself has no idea as to how much work goes into something like you created until they try it themselves. Carptrash (talk) 22:45, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: Thank you, . . . one wikiclod to another. It's a relief to have it posted. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:53, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

And I got A through F

List of American sculptors exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and still going . . .....not so strong. Carptrash (talk) 22:48, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: Great. They'll go together well. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:53, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

List of American painters exhibiting at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Something is wrong in the table at the William Sargeant Kendall entry. But I can't determine what the correct information should be. Rmhermen (talk) 01:58, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

@Rmhermen: @Carptrash: Thanks, folks, it's now fixed.

Guess what I just found?

No wonder this seemed the way to go. List of New Deal murals Carptrash (talk) 05:19, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

@Carptrash: One very good thing about your new (old) list is that it is for New Deal murals, so it can include non-WPA. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:10, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

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I nominate BoringHistoryGuy for Editor of the Week due to his Herculenian Labors in and around the List of American painters exhibiting at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition article. Starting with a huge amount of research followed by the construction of an amazing chart and finally tracking down and dealing with the copyright issues of many dozens of images, he has created an article that is Wikipedia at its best. A glance at the article’s history reveals that he has done this almost entirely on his own. (I had one edit, he had 300) This sort of dedication is what the award was created for. That he has been awarded this before only shows what a consistently good editor he is.

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