Talk:Lisa Mahar

Edit request: additional independent sources (NYT, Washington Post, WPR, MoMA) and location update

I created this article through AfC and have a disclosed conflict of interest (I am the subject), so I am requesting the following additions here rather than editing directly. All are independent press or primary institutional sources that were not yet in the article when it was accepted.

1. In the section Grain Elevators (1993), after the sentence ending "…and Great Plains Research.", add:

It was also featured in ''[[The New York Times]]'' on publication.<ref name="slesin">{{cite news |last=Slesin |first=Suzanne |title=Currents; The Romance of the Most American of Structures |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 May 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/27/garden/currents-the-romance-of-the-most-american-of-structures.html |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref>

2. In the section American Signs (2002), at the end of the paragraph that ends "…in a study of American mom-and-pop motels.", add:

The book was also covered in ''The New York Times'' by [[Phil Patton]] and in ''[[The Washington Post]]'',<ref name="patton">{{cite news |last=Patton |first=Phil |author-link=Phil Patton |title=Currents: Americana; Getting Your Postcard Kicks on Route 66 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 January 2003 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/garden/currents-americana-getting-your-postcard-kicks-on-route-66.html |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref><ref name="wapo">{{cite news |title=Along Route 66, an Architect's Signs of a Time |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=19 April 2003 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/04/19/along-route-66-an-architects-signs-of-a-time/eb39b81b-1d42-487b-bab3-0da7e5143e77/ |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref> and Mahar discussed it on [[Wisconsin Public Radio]]'s ''[[To the Best of Our Knowledge]]''.<ref name="ttbook">{{cite web |title=Lisa Mahar on "American Signs" |website=To the Best of Our Knowledge |publisher=[[Wisconsin Public Radio]] |url=https://www.wpr.org/shows/to-the-best-of-our-knowledge/lisa-mahar-on-american-signs |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref>

3. In "Awards and recognition", on the 2019 line, add a citation to MoMA's exhibition page after the existing <ref name="moma" />:

<ref name="momaexh">{{cite web |title=The Value of Good Design |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5032 |website=Museum of Modern Art |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref>

4. In "Personal life", replace the existing sentence with:

Mahar lived in New York City for nearly four decades and was later based in [[New Orleans]]; she now lives in [[Santa Barbara, California]].<ref name="madame" /><ref name="about" />

(The cited "About" page at lisamahar.com now states Santa Barbara.)

5. Housekeeping: the categories "1965 births" and "Living people" appear twice at the bottom of the article; the duplicates can be removed.

6. In the section American Signs (2002), the sentence about the Whitney essay currently reads "…My Egypt (1927), to the Whitney Museum's Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900–1950 (1999).<ref name="whitney" />" — please add the museum's collection record for the painting after "(1927)":

<ref name="whitney-myegypt">{{cite web |title=Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927 |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/635 |website=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=23 September 2026}}</ref>

Thank you. Sottobosco55 (talk) 23:08, 23 September 2026 (UTC)