Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/11~

This early western photographer is best known for his mammoth-plate prints using 18”x22” glass plate negatives, but he actually published the majority of his work as stereoviews.

This French neo-impressionist painter was one of the originators of the technique known as pointillism or divisionism, created by scientifically juxtaposed small dots of pure color.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/9~

What Swiss-American photographer took the suggestion of Walker Evans to apply for the Guggenheim Fellowship that would result in his most famous book?

What renowned American architect may be best known today for the scandal surrounding his murder by the jealous husband of a former lover?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/3~

What Italian Baroque painter, together with his cousin and his older brother, was painting Europe’s most radical and innovative pictures during the 1580s?

What artist documented American life from the 1920s to the 1970s, earning a reputation as one of the country’s  most influential photographers?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/31~

What painter ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists but was much less well known in his own day than today, primarily because he produced just a small number of paintings?

What artist was one of the most important and controversial photographers of the 20th Century, creating highly erotic, bold, and provocative fashion and editorial photos?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/22~

What artist, whom Picture Post magazine called “the greatest war photographer in the world”, died in Vietnam when he stepped on a land mine in 1954?

What artist coined the term Combines for his non-traditional materials and methods which blurred the division between painting and sculpture?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/16~

This Italian sculptor completed more than 150 bronze sculptures, primarily of wildlife, working from live animal models at zoos and abandoning a piece if he could not complete it in one sitting.

This American photographer and filmmaker embraced the ideas of modern painting and sculpture but applied it to his photography, making him a pioneer in 20th century avant-garde photography.

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/15~

What romantic American painter remained institutionalized after a breakdown in 1891, during which time prices for work he’d previously sold skyrocketed while his family languished in poverty?

What American modernist painter and photographer was an impressive Colorist, one of the first painters to bring Cubism to America, and a pioneer of the Precisionist movement?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/12~

What artist studied painting, but chose to devote himself entirely to commercial photography and photojournalism until his untimely death in 1959 from a plane crash?

What American Abstract Expressionist painter was particularly well known for his large scale hard-edge paintings, although multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/2~

Which 18th century landscape painter and his brother, two of the many famous painters from the Dutch city of Dordrecht, were pupils of their father?

Which photographer studied painting in college but pursued photography instead, becoming best known for her portraits of VIPs and celebrities?

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Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/1~

This photographer is known for her images of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury and for portraits of rock artists in the late 1960s, but she has also photographed landscapes and conceptual projects.

This Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, was a member of the second generation of “Dutch Italianate landscape” painters.

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