Wikipedia draft — for your review
A proposed Wikipedia article, built only from independent published sources. Please check every fact below. Not yet submitted.
What this page is. Wikipedia accepts an article only when a subject has significant coverage in multiple independent, reliable sources. This draft was written to that standard: every claim is tied to a published third-party source, and anything that could not be independently verified was deliberately left out — even flattering claims. Leaving unverifiable material out makes the article more likely to be accepted, not less.
Your job here. Read the article and confirm the facts are correct. If anything is wrong, note it. If you know of a newspaper or magazine article, book, or catalog that discusses your work, tell us — independent coverage is the single most valuable thing for getting this accepted.
The proposed article
Peter de Lory
American photographer (born 1948)
Peter de Lory (born 1948) is an American photographer based in Seattle, Washington. He is known for black-and-white landscape and documentary photography of the American West and the Pacific Northwest, and for public-art commissions in the Seattle region. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Early life and education
Peter de Lory was born in 1948 in Orleans, Massachusetts. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, which he attended from 1967 to 1971 — the same years as Annie Leibovitz — and an MFA from the University of Colorado, completing the latter in 1974. He directed the photography department at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Jose State University, and the University of New Mexico.
Work
His photography explores the landscape, narratives, and mythologies of the American West, and — after he relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1994 — the Seattle region. He works most frequently in black and white. Beginning in 1989 he used the triptych form to link images into implied narratives. His 2011 series The Falls, exhibited at the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, was reviewed in The Seattle Times and by the critic Gary Faigin.
His photographs appeared in the Aperture special edition Beyond Wilderness (No. 120, 1990), alongside work by Richard Misrach, John Pfahl, and Robert Dawson. His portraits were included in the book Buckaroo: Visions and Voices of the American Cowboy (Simon & Schuster / Callaway, 1993). In 1993 the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery at Light Work in Syracuse presented a solo exhibition of his work, Short Stories: The West, with a catalog essay by Jeffrey Hoone.
Public commissions
He completed several public-art commissions in Washington State. As Photographer-in-Residence for the Seattle Water Department through the Seattle Arts Commission (1996) he produced a narrative series on the city's water system. For Seattle Public Utilities he produced Citywork (1999–2000), exhibited at the Bank of America Gallery in 2000. From 2000 he served as Photographer-in-Residence for Sound Transit, documenting regional light-rail construction, published as the catalog Railwork (2001). His commission Champion — a photograph of the Nolan Creek western red cedar translated into a glass-and-marble mosaic column by Stephen Miotto of Miotto Mosaics — is installed in Concourse A at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
Collections
His work is held in public collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which holds ten prints from his portfolio Landscapes One. His work is also represented in the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program and the Washington State Arts Collection. The University of Washington Libraries Special Collections holds his Sound Transit light-rail photograph archive (1998–2009).
Awards
He received a Western States Arts Foundation Individual Artists Fellowship (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship (1979), and a Photographers Book Fellowship from the California Museum of Photography (1987).
Sources this draft cites
Every source below was checked directly. These are the citations that will appear in the article.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum — artist record (born 1948, Orleans, MA; collection)
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art — artist page (10 prints, Landscapes One)
- The Seattle Times — review of The Falls at Lisa Harris Gallery (2011)
- Gary Faigin — published critic's review of the 2011 Lisa Harris show
- University of Washington Libraries Special Collections — Sound Transit photograph collection finding aid (1998–2009)
- Light Work (Syracuse) — chronology confirming the 1983 and 1993 exhibitions
- International Center of Photography — library catalog for the Short Stories: The West exhibition
- Aperture Foundation — Beyond Wilderness (No. 120, 1990)
- 4Culture and the Port of Seattle — Champion at Sea-Tac Airport
- Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) — commissioned works record
- U.S. Department of State — Art in Embassies
- Wikipedia, Annie Leibovitz — confirms she attended the San Francisco Art Institute 1967–1971 (same years as de Lory). Note: supports the enrollment-overlap fact only; not a source about de Lory himself.
What was deliberately left out — and why
These claims appear in existing biographical materials but could not be confirmed against an independent published source this round. They are held back on purpose. If you can point us to a published source for any of them, we can add it and cite it.
- The 1973 Aperture frontispiece chosen by Minor White. Very likely true, but it needs a citation to the actual issue (Aperture 17:2). Note: the later 1990 Aperture appearance is confirmed and is already in the article, so the Aperture connection is established either way.
- Collections at the Walker Art Center, the National Gallery of Canada, Princeton, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Likely accurate, but each needs its own museum-page citation. The Smithsonian and SFMOMA holdings already meet the bar, so nothing is lost by waiting on these.
- Discussion in Lucy Lippard's book The Lure of the Local (1997). This would be a strong independent source if confirmed — please tell us if you have the book and the page.
The most useful thing you can add
A substantial newspaper or magazine feature or review written about you is worth more than any other kind of source. We already have the 2011 Seattle Times review and Gary Faigin's review. If you can supply others — Seattle Met, ArtWeek, catalog essays, book chapters — each one strengthens the case. Please list anything you have.
This is a working draft for your review, not a published Wikipedia page. When it is ready, it will be submitted through Wikipedia's Articles for Creation process by an editor with no connection to you.