Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/10~

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Which American artist sketched and painted more than 1200 portraits of Native Americans from 125 tribes and is believed to be the only person to paint Geronimo from life?

Which American sculptor was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, with highly textured surfaces, improvisational gesture, and broad pictorial interpretation?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/10/august-10/

9Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/9~

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Which artist attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867 and designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon garden in Brussels?

Which artist was best known for “Alamo” (“the Cube”), originally part of a temporary installation in 1967 in the East Village which became permanent after residents in the Astor Place area petitioned the city?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/09/august-9/

8Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/8~

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The only painter to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey, this artist established himself as court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I, who made him a baronet in 1715.

This artist worked as a painter and engraver then turned to sculpture, first in wood but later in iron, exhibiting as a sculptor at the 1960 Venice Biennale, then returning to painting in 1967.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/08/august-8/

7Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/7~

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This French painter, when asked what school he belonged to, replied, “None. But if you absolutely insist on categorising me, I am an intimist”.

This German painter and printmaker, known for his violent religious works and his foreboding landscapes, was one of the first Expressionists.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/07/august-7/

6Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/6~

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What artist originally completed a degree in radiochemistry, but left his job at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project and pursued art full-time due to his dismay about the threat of atomic weapons?

What British painter and printmaker was evacuated with his mother and sister to the USA during WWII, where he first saw work by Stuart Davis, Matisse, and Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/06/august-6/

5Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/5~

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Which early member of the American Abstract Artists group articulated her philosophical theorems not only through her art but also through her writing, lectures, teaching, and poetry?

Which Russian-born Constructivist artist, a pioneer of Kinetic Art, used materials such as glass, plastic, and metal and created a sense of spatial movement in his work?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/05/august-5/

5Aug2017

Roberta Dodd Crawford: Born August 5, 1897

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Bonham mezzo-soprano Roberta Dodd Crawford (1897-1954) shot across the concert world like a rare comet, blazing with talent and demonstrating the power of black performers to seriously engage American and European critics and audiences. In the end, through bad luck and poor circumstance, she flamed out, dying broke and forgotten by the world she had made richer by her incandescent presence.

She came from humble circumstances, spent long years training her remarkable voice, toured extensively in the U.S. and France, socialized and worked with fellow ex-patriots in Paris during the 1920s and early 1930s, married an American World War I hero and, later, an African prince; and suffered physically and mentally while under Nazi detention during World War II.
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Texas State Historical Association~
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr69

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4Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/4~

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This artist blazed a spectacular but short-lived trail through Flanders during the second quarter of the 16th Century as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, designer, writer, publisher, traveler and entrepreneur.

This painter was one of the artists dubbed the Irascible 18 after she and 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists signed an open letter to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accusing the museum of hostility to “advanced art”.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/04/august-4/

3Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/3~

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This largely self-taught Hungarian-born painter and commercial artist gained a reputation as one of America’s finest children’s book illustrators during the 1950s and 60s.

This jewelry artist, educator and goldsmith also worked in automobile design, toy design, fashion design, illustration, experimental metal research, and product development.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/03/august-3/

2Aug2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/2~

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Which painter created a number of works that used stylized, abstract forms at a remarkably early date — 1910 and 1911 — and is considered the first American artist to have created such purely nonrepresentational imagery?

Which painter — who exhibited in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich, December 1911 — was the only American artist associated with this group of early 20th Century European Modernists?

Which American artist sketched and painted more than 1200 portraits of Native Americans from 125 tribes and is believed to be the only person to paint Geronimo from life?

Which American sculptor was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, with highly textured surfaces, improvisational gesture, and broad pictorial interpretation?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/10/august-10/

Which artist attended the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels from 1860 to 1867 and designed the statues of all 48 historical professions in the Petit Sablon garden in Brussels?

Which artist was best known for “Alamo” (“the Cube”), originally part of a temporary installation in 1967 in the East Village which became permanent after residents in the Astor Place area petitioned the city?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/09/august-9/

The only painter to be commemorated in Westminster Abbey, this artist established himself as court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I, who made him a baronet in 1715.

This artist worked as a painter and engraver then turned to sculpture, first in wood but later in iron, exhibiting as a sculptor at the 1960 Venice Biennale, then returning to painting in 1967.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/08/august-8/

This French painter, when asked what school he belonged to, replied, “None. But if you absolutely insist on categorising me, I am an intimist”.

This German painter and printmaker, known for his violent religious works and his foreboding landscapes, was one of the first Expressionists.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/07/august-7/

What artist originally completed a degree in radiochemistry, but left his job at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project and pursued art full-time due to his dismay about the threat of atomic weapons?

What British painter and printmaker was evacuated with his mother and sister to the USA during WWII, where he first saw work by Stuart Davis, Matisse, and Picasso at the Museum of Modern Art?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/06/august-6/

Which early member of the American Abstract Artists group articulated her philosophical theorems not only through her art but also through her writing, lectures, teaching, and poetry?

Which Russian-born Constructivist artist, a pioneer of Kinetic Art, used materials such as glass, plastic, and metal and created a sense of spatial movement in his work?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/05/august-5/

Texas State Historical Association~ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr69

This artist blazed a spectacular but short-lived trail through Flanders during the second quarter of the 16th Century as a painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, designer, writer, publisher, traveler and entrepreneur.

This painter was one of the artists dubbed the Irascible 18 after she and 17 prominent Abstract Expressionists signed an open letter to the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accusing the museum of hostility to “advanced art”.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/04/august-4/

This largely self-taught Hungarian-born painter and commercial artist gained a reputation as one of America’s finest children’s book illustrators during the 1950s and 60s.

This jewelry artist, educator and goldsmith also worked in automobile design, toy design, fashion design, illustration, experimental metal research, and product development.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/03/august-3/

Which painter created a number of works that used stylized, abstract forms at a remarkably early date — 1910 and 1911 — and is considered the first American artist to have created such purely nonrepresentational imagery?

Which painter — who exhibited in the first Der Blaue Reiter exhibition in Munich, December 1911 — was the only American artist associated with this group of early 20th Century European Modernists?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/02/august-2/

Texas State Historical Association~
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr69