Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greg Crumbly
per .   Although he has drawn little attention in the art world, Crumbley's realistic portraits garner a good deal of attention in the media.   Profile articles about Crumbley have run in the major newspapers including St. Petersburg Times: https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/263883998/fulltext/76BFD9A37A0D49CFPQ/1?accountid=10226 ''Greg Crumbly'' STATE Edition, Poiley, Joel. , 19 Sep 2003; Sarasota Herald Tribune, https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/263883998/fulltext/76BFD9A37A0D49CFPQ/1?accountid=10226  ''IN ART, WAR'S DEAD LIVE ON: A veteran paints portraits to give to survivors of troops killed in Iraq,'' O'Donnell, Christopher. 21 Nov 2007 ; Sarasota Herald-Tribune: http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20071121/a-veteran-paints-portraits-to-give-to-survivors-of-troops-killed-in-iraq ''A veteran paints portraits to give to survivors of troops killed in Iraq (open source).  I would say that these long profiles in major, large-circulaiton, metro daily papers carry him past , and that they certainly do so in combination  with this profile of him in his earlier career as a police officer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/391888559/fulltext/76BFD9A37A0D49CFPQ/14?accountid=10226 ''Policeman draws his No. 2 pencil to get the bad guys'', Fuoco, Michael A. 05 Mar 1995.  In addition there have been a great many news articles like https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/271376833/76BFD9A37A0D49CFPQ/16?accountid=10226 ''For Love of His Country'' (Delgado, Angela. Tampa Tribune21 June 2008)(paywalled Proquest source), an article about a memorial ceremony for a fallen soldier where a portrait by "artist Greg Crumbly painted a "Portrait of Life," that displays the Marine in his uniform surrounded by vignettes of his life"  was displayed.  Also among the   hits on a Proquest news archive search there are a surprising number that include him in articles about artists who are commercially successful, like this 2004  Boston Globe story: https://search.proquest.com/news/docview/404927796/fulltext/76BFD9A37A0D49CFPQ/17?accountid=10226 ''THEY'VE CARVED OUT NICHE ; ARTISTS WHOSE FOCUS IS SPORTS ARE FINDING A SELLER'S MARKET'': ''" Sports fans, like art enthusiasts, are sometimes big collectors...  best exemplified by the (Buccaneers fan) in Tampa... an art collector whose (colllection includes) 11 oil paintings of Tampa Bay players by Valrico, Fla., artist Greg Crumbly
— User:E, 16:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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