User:Scotwriter
Why I Wiki
Enthusiastic wiki newbie/veteran writer/eclectic soul heading into retirement (when and if I can afford it). Former U.S. Easterner, now U.S. Westerner. As a kid, loved to read encyclopedias and dreamed of writing for one someday. Voila Wikipedia! Dream fulfilled.
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Barnstar of High Culture |
| style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Scotwriter: in recognition of your fine contributions to artists' biographies, including Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer. |
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|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Original Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For the excellent job of expanding and adding references to the William Penn article, and for the other articles you have done similar work on. |
=Favorite Wikipedia subjects=
Art, classical music, jazz, films, actors, painters, American history, American culture, European culture, English lit and language, sciences, tennis.
=Tip to other newbie content writers=
- Use good sources – library books are best
=Major Wikipedia content contributions=
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- Aaron Copland
- American Old West
- Andrew Wyeth
- Ann-Margret
- Ansel Adams
- Casanova
- Cecilia Beaux
- Charles Baudelaire
- Childe Hassam
- Clark Gable
- Corot
- Count Basie
- Duke Ellington
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Frederic Remington
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Henry Fonda
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Humphrey Bogart
- James Bond (films)
- James McNeill Whistler
- James Stewart (actor)
- Jamie Wyeth
- John Audubon
- John D. Rockefeller
- John Singer Sargent
- Johnny Mercer
- Kirk Douglas
- Liberace
- Louis Armstrong
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Ravel
- N. C. Wyeth
- Paul Klee
- Portrait painting
- P. T. Barnum
- Richard Burton
- Roman Art
- Sid Caesar
- Still Life
- Tamara de Lempicka
- William Bouguereau
- William Penn
- Winslow Homer
- Zane Grey
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=Minor Wikipedia content contributions=
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Big Band
- Bill Tilden
- Claude Debussy
- Edward Elgar
- Fred Astaire
- Gustav Klimt
- History of tennis
- Jack Benny
- Real tennis
- Tennis
- Thomas Eakins
===Photogallery===
Image:Fayum-02.jpg|Portrait of a Roman Woman
Image:Casanova ritratto.jpg|Portrait of Casanova
Image:Cassatt Mary Lady at the Tea Table 1883.jpg|Mary Cassatt - Lady at the Tea Table
Image:Winslow Homer - Breezing Up (A Fair Wind).jpg|Winslow Homer - Breezin Up
Image:Frederic Remington00.jpg|Frederic Remington - Cowboy on Horseback
Image:White Gerfalcons.jpg|J.J. Audubon - White Gerfalcons
Image:EakinsTheGrossClinic.jpg|Thomas Eakins - The Gross Clinic
Image:Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day - Google Art Project.jpg|Gustave Caillebotte - Rainy Day
Image:Bouguereau venus detail.jpg|William Bouguereau Venus
Image:Lady Agnew of lochnaw (John Singer Sargent).jpg|John Singer Sargent - Lady Agnew
Image:Corot.villedavray.750pix.jpg|Corot - Ville d'Avrey
Image:Hassam Washington Arch Spring.jpg|Childe Hassam - Washington Arch
File:Phineas Taylor Barnum portrait.jpg|Matthew Brady - P. T. Barnum
Image:HoagyCarmichael.jpg|Hoagy Carmichael
Image:Louis Armstrong NYWTS.jpg|Louis Armstrong
Image:Count Basie in Rhythm and Blues Revue.jpg|Count Basie
Image:Liberace.jpg|Liberace
Image:William Penn.png|William Penn
Image:JJAudubon.JPG|John Audubon
Image:Cowboy.jpg|American Cowboy
Image:Nakedspur trailer 3.jpg|James Stewart in The Naked Spur
Image:WyattEarp-andothers.jpg|Wyatt Earp and Associates
Image:Native American Chiefs 1865.jpg|American Indian Chiefs
Image:Sitting bull and buffalo bill c1885.jpg|Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill