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Category Archives: Birthdays

22Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/22~

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Which artist established the Peale Museum in Baltimore, later turning over management to his brother and moving to New York City?

Which artist, famous for his macabre illustrations, loved soap operas?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/22/february-22/

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21Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/21~

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By the time of the 1867 Exposition Universelle, this artist had established his reputation as both a history painter and a genre painter.

Although this artist was based in London, many of his public sculptures are to be found in Wales.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/21/february-21-2/

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20Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/20~

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Although he ultimately gave up music for photography, what artist’s original intention was to be a professional musician?

What painter and engraver published Indigo Days (an autobiography) in 1957?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/20/february-20/

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19Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/19~

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What artist, together with Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter?

What artist designed sets and costumes in 1966 for La Scala, the opera house in Milan, Italy?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/19/february-19/

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18Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/18~

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This artist has been called the “father” of assemblage art.

This artist created a sensation at the Berlin Academy exhibition in 1878 with two series of pen-and-ink drawings.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/18/february-18/

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17Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/17~

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Which artist’s most enduring works are figurative, although the majority of his paintings were portraits?

Which artist was America’s first professional still-life painter?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/17/february-17/

Artists' Birthdays, Painter, Painting, Visual Arts 1 Comment
16Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/16~

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This painter lived during the Sengoku period and was the 5th head of the Kano school.

In 1818 this designer’s widow completed and published her late husband’s “Manuale Tipografico” in two volumes.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/16/february-16/

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15Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/15~

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What 18th century artist came from a family of painters, creating portraits as well as history paintings?

What architect was the designer of Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, commissioned by Napoleon and opened in 1804?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/15/february-15/

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14Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/14~

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This artist often used a camera lucida, a device which projected scenes onto paper for tracing.

This artist’s last words were “Why don’t they let me die?”

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/14/february-14/

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13Feb2017

Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/13~

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What artist, along with Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry, shaped America’s vision of the Midwestern landscape and the people that inhabit it?

What artist can be said to have given drawing a status equal to painting in importance and quality?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/13/february-13/

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Cover Image: Self-Portrait #3 by Elaine de Kooning / 1946 / Oil on Masonite / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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“A Girl Reading”, Vanessa Bell, c.1932/Oil on canvas/The Charleston Trust, UK

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Cecilia Beaux, Sita and Sarita, c. 1921, oil on canvas
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