Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Frankie, The Organ Boy

Portrait Of Boy (Frankie, The Organ Boy)

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Original — Titled “Portrait of Boy” in the artist’s private logbook, with no further elaboration, but traditionally known as “Frankie, The Organ Boy”, Bellows’ portrait is of a child with a visible midline defect, possibly due to a chromosomal microdeletion; the sitter was either a seller of newspapers, since his nickel badge gives him permission to be out of school during daylight hours, or (more likely to my mind) a musician working in the very earliest movie houses in the vicinity of Bellows’ New York City studio. Possibly painted in a single sitting, the portrait pays tribute to the sitter “in the grand manner” as a full-body, formal, and ‘royal’ portrait.

Reason

An excellent and faithful Google Art Project reproduction of one of George Bellows’ most important early works, on which I intend to commence a new article

Articles in which this image appears

George Bellows, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

FP category for this image

painting

Creator

Dcoetzeebot

• Support as nominator – Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 19:04, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
• Comment - Creator is clearly not the bot. You need to link the category to the proper page.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:42, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
• Comment - Perhaps it's premature to nominate the photograph before there is a page made for this painting? As it stands now, it has limited EV. But with it's own page it would have very high EV. Mattximus (talk) 18:50, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
• Reply I will hop to it in the next few days. Like Gauguin’s Arii Matamoe and Ingres’ Louise de Broglie, Comptesse d’Haussonville, both of which became DYKs with Main Page photos, “Frankie, The Organ Boy” deserves wider Wikipedia notice (I think). Would it be proper here to credit Google Art Project as the Creator of the image, or Bellows himself? (Thanks everyone for their patience and advice, while I gather sources.) Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 14:18, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
• Withdrawn Because there’s a delicate dance of timing involved in the DYK process — a new article needs to be of a certain quality, as we all know, particularly in regards to proper sourcing, before it can be considered for DYK (front page “new article” status) — and perhaps because I have a particularly high standard for my own work when it’s something as dear as this particular subject, I’d like to table this FA nomination indefinitely, and hope I may do so “without prejudice”, per the legal term of art, so that I may re-nominate it at a later date without prior objection. At the moment, I don’t have access to academic databases, nor the money for xeroxing a few articles and chapters I’ve consulted over the years in various art historical, medical, and genealogical libraries, which is only to hint that, without giving away what I’ve found (O yes, it certainly qualifies as “Original Research”, and Wikipedia is no place for that), my ambition is to build a veriably-sourced platform article on Wikipedia, based on existing art historical scholarship about this painting, after which I later publish something elsewhere on my own. But that would not be for me to insert, and all this lays years ahead... But to know who “Frankie” really was, the identity of his (Irish) mother and (non-Irish, but... but...) father, and how this his remarkable story relates to, indeed, the VERY first days of narrative cinema (in what we today call “shorts”, shown in the very first pop-up theaters in the neighborhood of Bellows’ painting studio, many blocks from his actual residence)... To think of the storytelling inherent in the visual medium of film, and all that still to cone in this beave new art form, and the diegetic (“diegetic” being just a fancy word for “story-telling”) qualities of the very first music went with it, wholly improvised (as was so batural to Frankie, from his earliest days at the Harmonium, though in his life he could barely write his name and was never able to read, words or music, almost certainly because of the problem with his eyes, b/c he could not see close-up, but also because he fidgeted so when you tried to put a book in front of him and... well, he was never attentive to anything but...but to ANYTHING but music, and sounds, and the comedy of life all around him that could wake at his tocih) now, all that IS a novel. So when you think of the great film composers later to come, from Nino Rota to John Williams and on and on, so many others, think of their progenitors, and a painter eho had the vision to depict Frankie “in the grand manner”, as a figure of royalty, of honor. Think of where film and music were first married, and the “anonymous” musicians who married them. And bear with me, and with the indulgence of an FA nomination prorogued. Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 16:41, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:19, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

• Withdrawn nomination. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:19, 25 February 2018 (UTC)