2024-2025 Topics in American Art and Resource Library Enhancement Project

2024-2025 Topics in American Art and Resource Library Enhancement Project

(above: Colin Campbell Cooper, Summer, 1918, oil on canvas, 50 x 60.25 inches. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Components and procedures:

A. In concert with Wikimedia Commons Images for America's Distinguished Artists Catalog Project, add art object images from Distinguished Artists pages to American Representational Art topics pages for topics.

B. Going forward in alphabetical order of the most developed topics, (see African-American Art, California Art History, Military and Wartime Art as examples) create enhanced reference captions for Resource Library articles and essays in the following format:

(Exhibit name) is a (year) exhibit at the (museum name). Resource Library says in part about the exhibit: "(brief quote from text)"

This form of citation is designed to mimic the format for "other website references" sections of most American Representational Art catalog topics.

C. For Resource Library articles and essays listed within American Representational Art major topics, make changes including:

a. adding the

logo at top of related articles and essays pages,

b. turning the first page header into a footnote to benefit Google searches,

c. in the case of essays by named authors, for each page of the essay placing the name of the essay and author underneath the TFAO logo,

d. removing dead links to outside sources of information,

e. adding links to appropriate Distinguished Artists images.

C. Based on audit of Distinguished Artists, publish additional images in Topics in American Art pages. This is a sister project to the first Online Encyclopedia American Art References Project and Wikimedia Commons Images for America's Distinguished Artists Catalog project

a. Create a draft email for every major Topics in American Art topic after the Wikimedia Commons Images for America's Distinguished Artists Catalog Project is completed.

b. Go through the Distinguished Artists (DAS) catalog in artist alphabetical order to find images to allocate to each topic. Put only the credit line for each image in the appropriate topic email draft.

c. After each major topic draft is filled with all available DAS images credit lines, go to the topics surveyed in this project and add links to newly found additional images to each set of years for Resource Library articles and essays. Replace as needed images for years sets that were initially used to add pictorial content to a group of years. Each set of years may have up to six images. As an example, for the topic 20-21st Century Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Painting (for years 1997-2000 includes Southeast and Southern American Paintings) There are 10 sets of years:

2008-2016 15

2007 13

2006 15

2004- 2005 22

2003 30

2002 33

2001 58

2000 56

1999 94

1998 83

1997 33

so there can be 60 images in total chosen from the draft email created for the related topic.

d. If there are more than 60 images available for the above topic's ten set of years, add links to new image pages onto the main topic page. The title to the new links pages may say "Additional images located in Distinguished Artists." There may be six images per image page set.

For instance:

Image set 1 (six images)

Image set 2 (six images)

Image set 3 (six images)

etc.

until all of the images for the topic are exhausted.

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