Gilcrease Artist vs Original Artist

[VladimirAlexiev]

Gilcrease AAC Role Mapping (8.2.16).xlsx mapped both Artist and Original Artist to "artists (visual artists)".

Please describe in what situations each role is used, to ascertain whether the mapping is correct

[kateblanch]

@Diana-Folsom

[Diana-Folsom]

Hi, Vladimir!
I think "original artist" has been misused in our records.

We have gone over our cataloguing and it seems that in most cases, "Original Artist" should only refer to the creator of an original print - the artist should have made the print or closely overseen the making of the print.

We feel that the use of "Original Artist" isn't logical in most cases where it has been used (especially with Archive material), so we will be changing these data to become "Artist" or "Photographer" instead of "Original Artist".

There are cases with cataloguing of Prints where we have learned that information in the record may not be accurate, or too minimal to make a good assessment. We are going to rework these quickly to keep it simple - avoiding the label "Original artist", using "Artist" or "printer" or "printmaker", if we have this information.

Is there a particular type of situation where you think "original artist" is correct?

Many thanks for this guidance.

[VladimirAlexiev]

I think "original artist" is not correct: artist, printer, or printmaker is correct, as you describe above.
I the BM I've seen "after Rembrandt" or "copy of Rembrandt" but you still wouldn't call Rembrand the "original artist" in such a case.

[Diana-Folsom]

Thanks, Vladimir! We will make the changes. After we finish should we pull the data again and repost to Github?

[VladimirAlexiev]

@Diana-Folsom I think so, but track #3