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- 01:27, 1 April 2024 Lists of Western films (hist | edit) [3,718 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Gainsboro 03/24}} This is a '''list of notable Western films''' and '''TV series''', ordered by year and decade of release. For a long-running TV series, the year is its first in production. The movie industry began with the work of Louis Le Prince in 1888. Until 1903, films had been one-reelers, usually lasting 10 to 12 minutes,<ref>{{Cite web |title=8mm Film Reel Sizes Explained for Regular & Super 8 Film Footage |url=https://...")
- 23:38, 31 March 2024 Western American Art (hist | edit) [18,238 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western American Art 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Western American Art''' includes artistic work which depicts the subjects related to the Western American region, and was treated as impoverished, unwanted and unworthy art before the twentieth century, during which period it achieved respectability as a rewarding region for studying.<ref>Prown 1992, p. 1.</ref> The term holds a characteristic of narration that is different from the Modern art w...")
- 23:36, 31 March 2024 Western fiction (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western fiction 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Western fiction''' is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wister |first1=Owen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIr4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Western+fiction+is+a+genre+of+literature+set+in+the+American+Old+West+frontier&pg=PT2 |title=Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Western 2: Vol...")
- 23:33, 31 March 2024 Western film (hist | edit) [24,337 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Western film 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} The '''Western''' is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute as films which are "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier."<ref name=":2" /> Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890,<ref name="oxford">{{Cite book |url=https://books.goo...")
- 23:28, 31 March 2024 Westerns on television (hist | edit) [23,590 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Westerns on television 03/24}} {{Westerns sidebar |Media}} '''Television Westerns''' are TV programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars". More recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the space Western subgenre but...")
- 21:29, 31 March 2024 Cigarette card (hist | edit) [8,149 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Cigarette card 03/24}} thumb|right|250px|{{bc|Robin Roberts trading card<br>(my 2nd cousin and name sake)}} '''Cigarette cards''' are trading cards issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Between 1875 and the 1940s, cigarette companies often included collectible cards with their packages of cigarettes. Cigarette card sets document popular culture from the turn of the centu...")
- 21:13, 31 March 2024 Trading card (hist | edit) [10,073 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Trading card 03/24}} thumb|right|250px|{{bc|Robin Roberts trading card<br>(my 2nd cousin and name sake)}} A '''trading card''' (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other text (attacks, statistics, or trivia). There is a wide variation of different...")
- 21:11, 31 March 2024 Trade card (hist | edit) [8,523 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Trade card 03/24}} A '''trade card''' is a square or rectangular card that is small, but bigger than the modern visiting card, and is exchanged in social circles, that a business distributes to clients and potential customers, as a kind of business card. Trade cards first became popular at the end of the 17th century in Paris, Lyon and London. They functioned as advertising and also as maps, directing the public to the merchants' stores (no f...")
- 21:04, 31 March 2024 Lyon (hist | edit) [2,739 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Lyon, France 03/24}} '''Lyon''' (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), traditionally spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon had a population of 522,000 in 2023 within its small mu...")
- 20:38, 31 March 2024 Commercial art (hist | edit) [3,881 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Commercial art 03/24}} 200px|thumb|right|{{bc|Andy Warhol, Campbell Soup}} '''Commercial''' art is the art of creative services, referring to art created for commercial purposes, primarily advertising. Commercial art uses a variety of platforms (magazines, websites, apps, television, etc.) for viewers with the intent of promoting the sale and interest of products, services, and ideas. It relies on the iconic image (pictorial...")
- 19:50, 31 March 2024 Norman Saunders (hist | edit) [41,228 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Norman Saunders 03/24}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Saunders, Norman}} {{Infobox artist | color = lightblue | name = Norman Saunders | image = 1953Saunderspose.jpg | caption = Saunders and wife Ellen posing together to model a 1953 Western fiction cover painting. | birthname = Norman Blaine Saunders | birthdate = {{dob|1907|1|1|mf =y}} | birthplace = Minot, North Dakota, U.S. | deathdate = {{dod|1989|3|7|1907|1|1}} | death_place= | nationality= Ameri...")
- 13:38, 31 March 2024 Antonius (hist | edit) [784 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header| 11/23}}{{DEFAULTSORT:}} '''Antonius''' is a freelance illustrator with a long background in fine art, particularly drawing. The fetish subculture has always been part of his visual influences through the works of Clive Barker, Hanz Giger, Hans Bellmer to name a few. For this bondage series he exclusively worked with real people in private sessions. He is very interested in capturing the most intimate instants before they disappear, akin to catching a lightning...")
- 12:24, 31 March 2024 Swiss Jim (hist | edit) [766 bytes] Robinr78 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{Header|Swiss Jim 03/24}} The real name for this artist is unknown, he used the pseudonyms Jim of Swiss Jim, which might mean he was Swiss. The artist actively collaborated with publishers Irving Klaw and Edward Mishkin. The real identity of the artist has always remained a mystery, even to Klaw, but one collector knew that the artist was originally from Geneva. The artist was a technical draftsman for a design firm, and also worked under the pen name Gil. The artist di...")
