American Art

Question 1

early american neoclassicist & “the death of general wolfe”

Answer 1

benjamin west (1738-1820)

Question 2

had sons named rembrandt, raphaelle, and titian

Answer 2

charles willson peale (1741-1827)

Question 3

portraits of george washington

Answer 3

gilbert stuart (1755-1828)

Question 4

peaceable kingdom

Answer 4

edward hicks (1780-1849)

Question 5

bird illustrations

Answer 5

john james audubon (1785-1851)

Question 6

code/telegraph inventor who was also a painter and photographer

Answer 6

samuel morse (1791-1872)

Question 7

the hudson river school

Answer 7

thomas cole (1801-1848)

Question 8

civil war photographer

Answer 8

mathew brady (1822-1896)

Question 9

whistler’s mother/”arrangement in grey and black, no. 2”

Answer 9

james whistler (1834-1903)

Question 10

seascapes

Answer 10

winslow homer (1836-1910)

Question 11

political cartoons

Answer 11

thomas nast (1840-1902)

Question 12

american impressionist

Answer 12

mary cassatt (1844-1926)

Question 13

philadelphia painter & “the gross clinic”

Answer 13

thomas eakins (1844-1916)

Question 14

lincoln memorial & “minute man” sculpture

Answer 14

daniel chester french (1850-1931)

Question 15

portraits of the socially prominent

Answer 15

john singer sargent (1856-1925)

Question 16

old lady painter

Answer 16

grandma moses (1860-1961)

Question 17

wild west sculptures

Answer 17

frederic remington (1861-1909)

Question 18

montana cowboy sculptor who isn’t frederic remington

Answer 18

charles marion russell (1864-1926)

Question 19

the ashcan school

Answer 19

robert henri (1865-1929)

Question 20

mt. rushmore & stone mountain

Answer 20

gutzon borglum (1867-1941)

Question 21

gibson girl

Answer 21

charles dana gibson (1867-1944)

Question 22

nighthawks

Answer 22

edward hopper (1882-1967)

Question 23

andrew wyeth’s father

Answer 23

newell convers “n.c.” wyeth (1882-1945)

Question 24

american southwest & flowers & cow skulls

Answer 24

georgia o’keeffe (1887-1986)

Question 25

missouri-born muralist

Answer 25

thomas hart benton (1889-1975)

Question 26

dada photographer

Answer 26

man ray (1890-1976)

Question 27

american gothic & iowa

Answer 27

grant wood (1891-1942)

Question 28

saturday evening post

Answer 28

norman rockwell (1894-1978)

Question 29

depression photographer

Answer 29

dorothea lange (1895-1965)

Question 30

mobiles

Answer 30

alexander calder (1898-1976)

Question 31

nature photographer

Answer 31

ansel adams (1902-1984)

Question 32

russian-born abstract painter of bands of color

Answer 32

mark rothko (1903-1970)

Question 33

life magazine photojournalist

Answer 33

margaret bourke-white (1904-1971)

Question 34

wife of jackson pollock

Answer 34

lee krasner (1908-1984)

Question 35

abstract-expressionist drip painter

Answer 35

jackson pollock (1912-1956)

Question 36

christina's world & helga

Answer 36

andrew wyeth (1917-2009)

Question 37

sports artist

Answer 37

leroy neiman (1921-)

Question 38

freak photographer

Answer 38

diane arbus (1923-1971)

Question 39

blown-up comic books

Answer 39

roy lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Question 40

macabre illustrations

Answer 40

edward gorey (1925-2000)

Question 41

non-traditional materials

Answer 41

robert rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Question 42

pop art

Answer 42

andy warhol (1928-1987)

Question 43

swedish-born pop sculptor of giant versions of common objects

Answer 43

claes oldenburg (1929-)

Question 44

three flags

Answer 44

jasper johns (1930-)

Question 45

the dinner party

Answer 45

judy chicago (1939-)

Question 46

obscenity

Answer 46

robert mapplethorpe (1946-1989)

Question 47

rolling stone celebrity photographer

Answer 47

annie leibovitz (1949-)

Question 48

self-portrait photographer

Answer 48

cindy sherman (1954-)

Question 49

nyc street art

Answer 49

keith haring (1958-1990)

Question 50

painter of light

Answer 50

thomas kinkade (1958-)

Question 51

haitian-american graffiti artist

Answer 51

jean-michel basquiat (1960-1988)

Question 52

portrait of paul revere & "watson and the shark"

Answer 52

john singleton copley (1738-1815)