2023 Colorado Art History Deep Dive Project

2023 Colorado Art History Deep Dive Project

The intent of the 2023 Colorado Art History Deep Dive Project is to make freely available to the public via our TFAO website more citations of free in-depth materials having content focusing on American representational art, published online by third parties.

This project's work product is subjective. Interested parties will primarily desire to educate the public about the work product of this study. Remuneration for the work involved will be a secondary motive.

We have a Colorado Art History topic and therefore don't desire duplicative citations of content already published within it. Wikipedia and other online encyclopedia compilations are also excluded.

"Past Exhibition" posts published by museums and cultural centers on their websites, archived for free viewing, will be the primary source of citations. Acceptable posts will include three or more of the following elements: exhibit description of 300 words or more; images of artworks; recordings of curator interviews and lectures; artist and curator biographies; virtual tours; teacher guides; press releases; media coverage; wall texts; enhanced object labels; illustrated checklists; online brochures, catalogues and gallery guides in .pdf or flip book format. Elements of individual posts will not be considered as separate citations. Also acceptable for citations are links to whole academic papers, original magazine articles with over 500 words of text, and entire books archived for free viewing,

Multiple items are often included within one of the elements. For instance, within the images element there may be ten artwork images, two photos of artists and one logo. An exception to the three or more elements rule is a museum's exhibit entry containing a Matterport virtual tour plus a text description of the exhibit. In that case two elements are sufficient. This is because Matterport virtual tours contain wall texts and object labels as well as images.

To provide better attribution, please preface quotes made by named individuals. For example:

Allen True Murals https://www.historycolorado.org/story/stuff-history/2011/05/01/allen-true-murals is a 2011 article from History Colorado https://www.historycolorado.org/. In the exhibit description, Alisah DiGiacomo says: "Awarded the job in 1927, True installed the lunette murals and one other mural in the building's two lobbies. Removed prior to the building's demolition in 1976, the murals, entitled The Producers, The Refiners, and The Marketers, depict activities in the petroleum industry. "Accessed 7/23

In an exhibit post by a museum, if there are links to URLs outside of the museum's site, the materials accessed through those links won't be counted in the minimum elements criteria.

If a URL is temporary such as in "https://www.Colorado.edu/cuartmuseum/exhibitions/view-upcoming/pioneers-women-artists-boulder-1898-1950," the citation is invalid. The section in the URL that says "/exhibitions/view-upcoming/" is the giveaway. If a URL contains characters that indicate "past," that's a good sign. Usually acceptable URLs contain "exhibitions" or "past exhibitions" or the exhibit name. The don't have "current" or "future" in them. Exhibit URLs must remain posted for a minimum of five years on the museum's website section for past exhibitions. Some museum websites have a "past exhibitions" pull down menu section that contains all past exhibitions, each listed in time order, using only one URL.This method can produce acceptable citations without exhibit-specific URLs if approved elements are included for the exhibit in question and past exhibits are posted for a minimum of five years.

Examples of citations for other topics a researcher emailed to us via johnphazeltine@gmail.com are:

A New House for Violet Oakley's House of Wisdom https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/exhibitions/violet-oakley-building-the-house-of-wisdom

is a 2023 exhibit at the Woodmere Art Museum https://woodmereartmuseum.org which says: "This mural series, The Building of the House of Wisdom, was among the monumental commissions of Oakley's career. The artist found her theme in Proverbs 9:1: 'Wisdom hath buildeth her house.' Her grand allegory demonstrates how wisdom develops within the structure of the family through an embrace of literature, the visual and performing arts, modern science, ancient mythology, and the history of civilization." Accessed 7/23

Night & Day: Frederic Remington's Final Decade https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org/exhibits/night-day-frederic-remingtons-final-decade/ is a 2022 exhibit at the Sid Richardson Museum https://sidrichardsonmuseum.org which says: "This exhibition explores works made in the final decade of Frederic Remington's life, when the artist alternated his canvases between the color dominant palettes of blue-green and yellow-orange. The works included range from 1900 to 1909, the year that Remington's life was cut short by complications due to appendicitis at the young age of forty eight. In these final years Remington was working to distance himself from his long-established reputation as an illustrator, to become accepted by the New York art world as a fine artist, as he embraced the painting style of the American Impressionists. In these late works he strove to revise his color palette, compositional structure, and brushwork as he set his Western subjects under an interchanging backdrop of the shadows of night and the dazzling light of day. Accessed 7/23

Women and the WPA: As Seen Through RAM's Collection https://www.ramart.org/exhibit/women-and-the-wpa/ is a 2023 exhibit at the Racine Art Museum https://www.ramart.org which says: "As seen through their artwork, these women artists reflected on the world around them -- capturing the social, cultural, and everyday climate of a nation battling financial depression and somewhat unknowingly on the brink of a world war. While specific artists can be linked with the works on paper, most of the textile samples are attributed to anonymous crafts people associated with the Milwaukee Handicraft Project (MHP). The MHP was a landmark Wisconsin-based endeavor that employed over 5,000 people -- mainly women and many of color -- to create handcrafted domestic-oriented goods to be sold to schools, libraries, and other public institutions." Accessed 7/23

The above citations were published within our Topics in American Art pages.

Quotes from posts will be brief*, with the most salient information about an exhibit selected from its explanatory text. The words for each citation follow a precise order: 1. name of the posted exhibit entry; 2. its permanent link URL; 3. the words "is a (year exhibit began) exhibit at the"; 4. followed by the name of the museum; 5. followed by the URL link to the museum home page; 6. followed by the words "which says:"** ; 7. followed by a direct quote from the description of the exhibit copied from the museum's exhibit description containing over 300 words and less than five sentences in length, usually two to three**; 8. followed by "Accessed (month and date of citation)." Citations will always have the above format.** Emails sent to johnphazeltine@gmail.com will be in plain text, and not as .pdf, .doc, .txt or other formats.

* For exhibit descriptions, the quoted word count element is substantive if over 300 words. If there are over 300 descscriptive words for the text element and they are accompanied by one or more exhibition-centric videos that are over three minutes long -- or there's a Matterport virtual tour including legible wall text and object label spot magnification -- the three or more elements rule won't apply because of the high level of substance provided with only two elements.

** An exception is when quoted descriptive text is by a person instead of the museum, please preface quotes made by the named individual. For example:

Additional topic

If 40 approved citations are unavailable for Colorado Art History, contractor may add non-duplicative, approved citations for our Animal Sculpture topic to reach up to 40 citations in total.

We will pay for:

citations we approve and publish online at our sole discretion. We are only interested in citations of original materials we believe will be freely available online for at least ten years, based on the track record of their publishers and the structure of their URL directories. This requirement is important because in our experience materials published online frequently perish over time. One citation for museum exhibit-related materials will be accepted. The estimated number of acceptable citations is unknown.

- up to 40 approved citations at a price of $5.00 USD per citation. If the contractor finds less than 40 approved citations, we will restate this project to pay on a prorated basis for each of them.

The contract will be broken up into milestones. Please discuss with us prospective milestones. They are necessary due to the normal leaning curve of contractors. The time limit for this contract will be six months from it's inception.

Return to Content Enrichment Projects

Our catalogues:

American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art

Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings

Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections

Distinguished Artists a national registry of historic artists

Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.

Illustrated Audio Online streaming online narrated slide shows

Articles and Essays Online substantive texts published outside of Resource Library

Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers

Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format

Books general reference books published on paper

Interactive media media in CD-ROM format

Magazines paper-published magazines and journals

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