Commons:Deletion requests/File:Blumenschein Superstition.jpg

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File:Blumenschein Superstition.jpg

1921 US painting. I guess that means painted in 1921. No evidence is provided that the painting was published before 1923. I am unsure if the mere exhibition amounts to publication for a painting in the US at that time. Anyway we don't know if it was exhibited then. --Teofilo (talk) 17:07, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

• Keep - for works of art, the copyright is effective when the work is completed. No further "publication" or even exhibition is required. Therefore this work completed before 1923 is in the public domain. See for example [1]. Yworo (talk) 00:08, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
  • Yes, you are right, the copyright is effective all the time, even when the work is unpublished. But the term of copyright protection calculated from the date of publication (if it was published before 1978). Trycatch (talk) 02:24, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
    • Ok, then. This painting won the Altman Prize in 1921 and was published in the New York Times on November 20, 1921. [2]. Yworo (talk) 20:34, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
    • It was also published in the January 1922 issue of The American Magazine of Art, as noted in the March 1922 El Palacio: "The American Magazine of Art for January prints an excellent half-tone re-production of E. L. Blumenschein's can-vas "Superstition", first exhibited in the Museum at Santa Fe and which was given the first Altman prize at the Na-tional Academy Exhibit November to December" [3] Yworo (talk) 20:51, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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Kept.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 22:04, 5 September 2010 (UTC)