Talk:Una Deerbon

Start-up material

Some of the material appearing in the first version of this article appears to have been appropriated from the draft in my Sandbox. I have added more material and gladly accepted details, for instance of Deerbon's divorce. There is a continuing problem: newspaper interest in her work seems to have fallen off badly between WW2 and 2010, when her prices started to boom at auction. Accordingly information is skimpy on Deerbon's career from the end of the war till her death. We also lack any decent photo of a piece of her work. Erictimewell (talk) 05:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Accusation of plagiarism denied. I came across her redlink name in the list of Australian art potters, which ordinarily should be removed, as lists should refer to existing WP articles, but did Google search and found the SMH reference, so made a modest start on an article, something I've done many times before. I was interested in your information that she changed her surname to Deerbon when she married, as her husband appears to have retained his. Please don't delete properly referenced information, just because you think it irrelevant; often such details prove invaluable to other interested editors. And congratulations: you've made it an interesting and useful article. Doug butler (talk) 07:45, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Doug, query of plagiarism is happily withdrawn. After a paranoid morning it dawned on me that someone out there was trying to help. In a story in which nearly all the players have double identities, every sentence represents hours of work. I believe I have restored all your discoveries (except a newspaper typo for Deerbon's family name). If not, please put them back. I would love to know, for instance, if Deerbon really went to the Slade School; at present we only have her word for it. Erictimewell (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

No worries. I'm intrigued with the surname Eeg, which I guess is Scandinavian. Her mother was certainly surnamed Eeg, as was her brother Harry (thumbnail picture of mother and son in one of the genealogy websites), but whether she was born before or after marriage to Mr. Eeg is moot. My guess is that Una got sick of people querying such a non-Anglo surname. I would.Doug butler (talk) 21:56, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

One reference chooses its words carefully. "311 Collins Street, Melbourne where she advertised herself as late of the Slade School, London and the Michigan Art School, Chicago." In other words, believe this if you will. Of course the Michigan School of Art is in Michigan, not Chicago. Erictimewell (talk) 00:44, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

What's missing

There seems to be a mass of extraneous detail about Deerbon's marriages and children. Rather than overload the narrative I have given just the basics; she is notable as an artist. On the other hand, there seems to be no published material on her post-war career as a potter, teacher and businesswoman. Something similar goes for critical evaluation of her work, which seems to have slid from swoons to yawns, at least until the chequebooks started to wave in the 2010s. Erictimewell (talk) 00:41, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

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