Wikipedia:WikiProject Women artists/Lists of works
This is the how-to for creating lists of works for WikiProject Women artists. Help Wikipedia improve its coverage of women artists by improving or starting one of these articles today!
List of works edit
To start with, lists of works should be created for all notable women artists through the centuries. In combination with the w:Wikidata:WikiProject sum of all paintings project. Such articles should have the following categories:
- Category:Elizabeth XYZZY (painter) (You may need to first create such overview categories if they don't exist yet)
- Category:Images of paintings (for copyrighted images not suitable for Commons, see below)
- Category:Lists of works of art
The format should be something like this:
| Image | Title | Year | Size | Inventory nr. | Gallery | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Bluelink to artwork title, else leave unlinked | Before 1850 | 65 cm x 58 cm | 1883.122 | Bluelink to collection | New York City |
You can use any overview catalog to assemble the data, and just add it as a source for the list. Here are lists of works by women artists:
- List of paintings by Catharina van Hemessen
- List of paintings by Clara Peeters
- List of paintings by Judith Leyster
- List of paintings by Rachel Ruysch
- List of works by Mary Cassatt
- List of works by Thérèse Schwartze
- List of paintings by Frida Kahlo (Her works are under copyright, but we can still write about them!)
Picking your way through our copyright policies edit
Wikipedia copyright policy is different for 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional objects. It is difficult to follow at times, but worthwhile to learn about. It is possible to write articles about notable artworks without illustrations, and it is possible to upload non-free images to English Wikipedia, but it's easier to look up existing images on Commons. If an image is deleted, use the "No image available" file or "Non-free image placeholder" as a placeholder.
2D and sum of all paintings edit
For artists born after 1850, not all 2-dimensional artworks can be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Images of drawings, paintings, prints, or other two-dimensional works of art, and the copyrights for them are most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image in question, the person who commissioned the work, or their heirs. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art for critical commentary on the work in question, the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or the school to which the artist belongs on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of such images, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
3D and sum of all sculpture edit
For all artists of any time period, images of sculptures may be copyrighted based on the artistry needed to make the image of it. This is why we have so few images of important sculptures, though there might be images published before 1923 that can be used. If you know where to find them, please upload them! For artists born after 1850, the same problem applies to images as to that of 2D artworks, except if the sculpture is in a public place in countries where freedom of panorama holds.