Famous Sculptures Name the Artist

Question 1

Balloon Dog

(a series in various colours)

Answer 1

Jeff Koons

Question 2

Statue of Liberty

(on Liberty Island in New York Harbor)

Answer 2

Designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, built by Gustave Eiffel

Question 3

Christ the Redeemer

(on Sugarloaf Mountain above Rio de Janeiro)

Answer 3

Paul Landowski

Question 4

The Thinker

(the original title of which was The Poet)

Answer 4

Auguste Rodin

Question 5

Love

Answer 5

Robert Indiana

Question 6

Red Mobile, 1956

Answer 6

Alexander Calder

(anything “mobile” is probably Calder)

Question 7

The Endless Column

Answer 7

Constantin Brancusi

Question 8

Guitar

(yes, it’s made of cardboard)

Answer 8

Pablo Picasso

Question 9

Cloud Gate

(centerpiece of Millenium Park in Chicago)

Answer 9

Anish Kapoor

Question 10

Bird in Space

Answer 10

Constantin Brancusi

Question 11

Walking Man (1960)

Answer 11

Alberto Giacometti

Question 12

The Gates of Hell

Answer 12

Auguste Rodin

Question 13

The Kiss (1908)

Answer 13

Constantin Brancusi

Question 14

Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss

Answer 14

Antonio Canova

Question 15

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

(one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World)

Answer 15

Phidias

Question 16

Mademoiselle Pogany

Answer 16

Constantin Brancusi

Question 17

The Lincoln Memorial

Answer 17

Designed by Daniel Chester French, carved by the Piccirilli brothers

Question 18

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Answer 18

Umberto Boccioni

Question 19

Apollo and Daphne

Answer 19

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Question 20

Flamingo

(in Federal Plaza, Chicago)

Answer 20

Alexander Calder

Question 21

Reclining Figures (series)

Answer 21

Henry Moore

Question 22

Little Dancer of Fourteen Years

Answer 22

Edgar Degas

Question 23

Brillo Box (Soap Pads)

Answer 23

Andy Warhol

Question 24

David

Answer 24

Michaelangelo

Question 25

Bird Girl

(which became famous when it was featured on the cover of the non-fiction novel “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” incidentally the longest-standing New York Times Best-Seller)

Answer 25

Sylvia Shaw Judson

Question 26

The Bronze David

Answer 26

Donatello

Question 27

Aphrodite of Knidos

Answer 27

Praxiteles

Question 28

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa

Answer 28

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Question 29

Maman

Answer 29

Louise Bourgeois

Question 30

The Trojan Horse

Answer 30

Fernando Botero

Question 31

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Answer 31

Antonio Canova

Question 32

Charging Bull

(which stands on Bowling Green in the Financial District in NYC)

Answer 32

Arturo Di Modica

(On March 7, 2017, a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal, Fearless Girl was installed facing Charging Bull. It was commissioned to advertise for an index fund that comprises gender-diverse companies that have a relatively high percentage of women among their senior leadership and installed in anticipation of International Women’s Day the following day. Following complaints from Di Modica, it was removed in November 2018 and relocated to outside the New York Stock Exchange.)

Question 33

Manneken Pis

(one of the landmarks of Brussels, Belgium)

Answer 33

Hieronymus Duquesnoy the Elder

Question 34

The Burghers of Calais

Answer 34

Auguste Rodin

Question 35

Pieta

(located in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City)

Answer 35

Michaelangelo

(the only work he ever signed)

Question 36

Venus de Milo

Answer 36

Alexandros of Antioch (probably)

Question 37

The Kiss (1882)

Answer 37

Auguste Rodin

Question 38

Fountain

(yes, it’s a urinal)

Answer 38

Marcel Duchamp

Question 39

Bicycle Wheel

Answer 39

Marcel Duchamp

Question 40

Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

Answer 40

Alexander Calder