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Delete I can't quite get her to
notability. She did get some notice for her sculptures, but I couldn't find much beyond what was in the article. I thought surely I would find an obituary somewhere, since she died only last year, but I found nothing; that in itself speaks to her notability (or lack of it). --
MelanieN (
talk) 03:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep (Changed from Comment) - work was mentioned/reviewed in
The New York Times, may pass
WP:ARTIST #4 d. Needs checking whether there are really pieces in the museums stated in the article, and whether they are "notable galleries or museums" under this guideline. There's no "National Academy" in New York to which she could have been elected, she was not a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters (based in New York City).
Kraxler (
talk) 18:02, 10 June 2015 (UTC)reply
The sources stated below, and the info available there, make clear that she passes
WP:GNG and several other additional guidelines like ARTIST 4 d. The biographical entry cleared up that she was an associate of the
National Academy of Design (which indeed seems to be simply referred to as the "National Academy") an institution founded in 1825, and where "one cannot apply for membership", one is chosen "from the highest ranks of American artists and architects".
Kraxler (
talk) 15:38, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 01:29, 11 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:29, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep She's in the Met (ref added), and Albright-Knox
[1][2] though not quite sure how major the latter is. But I think there's sufficient coverage:
Article in New York Times already cited.
Hilton Kramer, "Anne Arnold's Peaceable Kingdom", 1971, reprinted in The Age of the Avant-Garde, Transaction, 2011.
[3]
Campbell, Lawrence, "The Animal Kingdom of Anne Arnold", Art News 63:8 (Dec 1964) 32-33, 64-65
Campbell, Lawrence, "Anne Arnold at Fischbach", Art in America (Nov 1988) 173-174
Jules Heller, Nancy G. Heller, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, Routledge, 2013, p32
[4]
A catalog Anne Arnold: A Retrospective published by the University of New Hampshire, 1983
Some things in Google Books snippet views including an article "Anne Arnold" in Craft Horizons, Volume 31, 1971.
Colapeninsula (
talk) 15:04, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep with the fixes. The Natl. Acad. Design might also clue us in on why she's not in a lot of shows past the 1960's: she may have switched from painting to design, which doesn't hang on walls as often.
Hithladaeus (
talk) 17:53, 18 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. In the collection of three notable museums (including the Met) is enough for
WP:ARTIST, and the additional evidence provided by Colapeninsula is also convincing. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 06:51, 19 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep. A woman born in 1925 has sculpture in the Met? This is something of interest.
Soilmicro (
talk) 01:55, 20 June 2015 (UTC)reply
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