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WP Poetry and The Canterbury Tales task force
As someone who is listed as a participant for WikiProject Poetry, I hope you will be interested to learn of an attempt to revive the WP and alongside this the creation of task force to improve coverage of The Canterbury Tales. We are currently looking for participants to help set up the basics. Please get involved if you can, and we can hopefully revive this important project within Wikipedia! Many thanks, MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 18:32, 14 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I've enjoyed reading the Florence Earle Coates poetry you posted. My interest in Edward Coates stems from his involvement with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and his relationship with Thomas Eakins. No personal connection or insights, but I am impressed by what an extraordinary couple they were. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:13, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for sharing the references. I look forward to reading the articles.
I love being able to associate a work of art with the likely inspiration for that work. PAFA doesn't often have William Trost Richard's Old Ocean's Gray and Melancholy Waste (1885) on display, but I remember the undulating effect of its waves. The fact that the Coates[es] owned the painting for nearly 40 years, and that it may have inspired Florence to write "Mid-Ocean" is wonderful to know.
Thank you for the info on Florence's portrait. Judging from auction prices, these Gilded Age portraits are not valued very highly (unless it's a "name" artist). == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 13:55, 24 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
PAFA seems to be perpetually struggling. My uncle, a graduate of the school, claimed that as many people now visit for the architecture (Frank Furness) as for the art. A couple years ago, PAFA sold one of its two Edward Hoppers to create an endowment to buy contemporary art, a move that was highly unpopular with the public. Donors may give individual paintings, but recently two large collections that might have been expected to go to PAFA were given to a local university and went to a NYC auction house. And it doesn't help that the giant Philadelphia Museum of Art is just a mile away.
The display cases of sculpture in the Hamilton Buildings are unfortunate. PAFA's school used to be housed in a building on the opposite side of Broad Street, that was demolished for the Pennsylvania Convention Center's expansion. The money PAFA had went into renovating the adjacent building for the school. A shame the sculpture remains so poorly displayed.
You might try the Reliable sources noticeboard. WP:RSN They might be able to advise you. Also, at WP:The Wikipedia Library, there may be information of use to you. IMO, compiling a list of sources is not original research! Good luck... Tribe of Tiger (talk) 20:44, 13 April 2016 (UTC) Sorry, I'm a newbie,and didn't understand how to let you know I posted this at the Help Desk. Think I have figured it out now.Tribe of Tiger (talk) 20:44, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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One of the curators of WWI and American Art was on C-Span this afternoon. (The touring exhibition closed today in Nashville, Tennessee.) This inspired me to look more closely at the catalogue and to read the first and last essays. Wonderful and sad. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:24, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@BoringHistoryGuy: I am interested, and will take a closer look! Always looking for artwork to accompany tweets about the poetry of Florence Earle Coates. Her poems lend themselves well to art/paintings, and the time period is just right! Thanks for the heads up :) Londonjackbooks (talk) 18:27, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Ckoerner: That's great! Thank you for that :) I look forward to seeing what else I can come up with to create a WP page, and perhaps even adding the text itself to Wikisource at some point. Have a great day! Londonjackbooks (talk) 22:53, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Oneupsmanship: This painting turned the friendly rivalry between Edward Redfield and Elmer Schofield into a feud. Schofield was a frequent houseguest at Redfield's farm, upstream from New Hope, Pennsylvania, and the two would go out painting together, competing to capture the better view. Redfield served on the jury for the 1904 Annual Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute; at which, despite Redfield's opposition, Across the River was awarded the Gold Medal and $1,500 prize. It was not until a 1963 interview that the 93-year-old Redfield revealed the painting as the cause of the 40-year feud between them. Schofield may have painted it in England, but a blindsided Redfield knew that it was a view of the Delaware River, from his own front yard!
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Moral lesson:John Vanderlyn was an American painter who studied in Paris, and his life-sized Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos was one of the first large nudes exhibited in the United States. Peddling the poison as well as the cure, this overtly sensuous work was presented to the public as a moral lesson on the consequences of lascivious behavior. Visible in the distance is the ship of Princess Ariadne's secret lover, Theseus, for whom she has betrayed her people by helping him to escape the Labyrinth and slay the Minotaur. Ariadne's bliss will come to an end when she awakens from her post-coital reverie, only to discover that the faithless Theseus has sailed away without her.
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