Talk:Paul Theodore Arlt

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[1] from 2005 shows many marked identical wordings with this article. I do not believe the WP copied from a Wikipedia article 9 years later. Collect (talk) 00:16, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

("##His watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings have been exhibited in ... the Corcoran Gallery of Art the National Gallery of Art the Phillips Memorial Gallery the Art Institute of Chicago the Museum of the City of New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art", etc.)

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Paul Theodore Arlt ( March 15, 1914[1] – 2005), American painter, political cartoonist and graphic artist born in New York City, New York, was long time resident of Washington, DC.

Early Life

He received an undergraduate degree from Colgate University in 1933. After graduation he studied painting at Greenwich House, a pioneering settlement house and art school in Greenwich Village. He moved to Washington in 1934 and studied at the Corcoran Gallery of Art with Samuel Burtis Baker and Eugen Weisz and later with C. Law Watkins at the Phillips Gallery School of Art.

Career

His watercolor, silkscreen and acrylic works depicted Washington landmarks and life in political Washington, including committee hearings on Capitol Hill and elected officials. Down Pennsylvania Avenue is a watercolor street scene with the balustrade of the Treasury Department in the foreground. His watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings have been exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of the City of New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Arlt was an artist with the United States Department of the Treasury's Section of Fine Arts and painted the post office mural The Section in Enterprise, Alabama. The Enterprise post office was torn down in 1991, but Mr. Arlt's mural, "Saturday in Enterprise," was preserved and now hangs in the Enterprise Public Library.

During World War II, Arlt was a combat artist in the Marine Corps, recording events in drawings and paintings. He received a Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound. After the war Mr. Arlt received commissions from the U.S. Economic Cooperative Administration, a precursor of the U.S. Information Agency, to do paintings in Paris and Copenhagen. He was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune from 1951 to 1956. He worked as the art editor for two trade publications from 1956 to 1964. NASA commissioned him to paint and draw the Gemini space launch at Cape Kennedy and various tracking stations. That artwork is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and at the Kennedy Space Center.

Paul Arlt died at the age of 91 on Sept. 20 2005 of congestive heart failure at his home in Rye, New York. He was married for 65 years to May MacClaire Arlt.

References

1.^ McGlauflin, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939” vol.2, The American Federation of Arts,Washington D.C., 1937

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Note that the Washington Post Obit [2] was the very first edit made to this article and mysteriously is not even used as a reference a single time. At all - zero.

Bolding indicates identical wording between the article as it stands and as the WP obit is worded. 152 words exactly as written in an uncited source - which was blatantly the source per the first edit on the page. Collect (talk) 13:10, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Blanked as simple plagiarism - starting with a copyrighted source per [3] which clearly states the source used, then manages not to mention the original source used at all, while plagiarizing freely from the source. By courtesy, the editor was notified at the start, but is apparently unable to address the issue. and this blanking is done as a last resort. Collect (talk) 12:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC)