Memorize these and recognize 37.7% of all Painting clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vincent Van Gogh | 20 | Artist whose masterpiece is seen here: |
| 2 | Picasso | 15 | Picasso had 2 children with Francoise Gilot: Claude & this woman |
| 3 | Rembrandt | 11 | This Dutch artist painted his son Titus in monkish garb in 1660 |
| 4 | Jan Vermeer | 10 | The lady in this Dutchman's "A Lady Writing" wears a yellow jacket, hair ribbons & pearl earrings |
| 5 | Whistler | 9 | Before painting his mother, he used his mistress as a subject in "Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl" |
| 6 | Monet | 8 | This artist's portrait of his wife sold in 1875 for 290 francs, hardly covering the cost of the frame & materials |
| 7 | Guernica | 8 | It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair |
| 8 | Edouard Manet | 8 | Victorine Meurent, his favorite model, is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" |
| 9 | Edgar Degas | 8 | French Impressionist who kept his ballerinas on their toes in "The Dancing Class" |
| 10 | Winslow Homer | 8 | "A Fair Wind", an 1876 work by this U.S. painter, shows a catboat at sea bearing the name Gloucester; d'oh! |
| 11 | Francisco Goya | 8 | In the early 19th century, this Spaniard created a sensation with his "Majas" paintings, one clothed & one nude |
| 12 | Paul Gauguin | 8 | In his book "Noa Noa" he wrote about Tahiti, "Here I enter into truth, become one with nature" |
| 13 | Mary Cassatt | 7 | This American woman went Impressionist in the late 1870s & exhibited with the group in 1879 |
| 14 | the Mona Lisa | 6 | A portion of this painting is on the jacket of the hardcover edition of "The Da Vinci Code" |
| 15 | Georges Seurat | 6 | His "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" is in the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 16 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 6 | He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine |
| 17 | Jacques-Louis David | 6 | His twin daughters both married generals, & his portrait of one of his sons-in-law is seen here |
| 18 | John Singer Sargent | 5 | In 1896 he wrote, "My prices are 2000, 3000 & 4000 dollars for head & shoulders, 3/4 length & full-length respectively" |
| 19 | Jackson Pollock | 5 | "Lavender Mist" (1950) |
| 20 | Georgia O'Keeffe | 5 | Alfred Stieglitz discovered her drawings & exhibited them in 1916 while she was teaching art in the south |
| 21 | Rubens | 5 | Because of his style of painting females, this master's name gave us an adjective for plump women |
| 22 | Grandma Moses | 5 | In 1905 she & her husband bought a farm at Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where she stayed until her death in 1961 |
| 23 | Toulouse-Lautrec | 4 | 1895: "Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins" |
| 24 | The Scream | 4 | Unafraid to give another shout-out to a good idea, Edvard Munch did versions of this in 1893, 1895 & around 1910 |
| 25 | The Night Watch | 4 | This Rembrandt work depicts the militia company of Frans Banning Cocq |
| 26 | The Last Supper | 4 | Appropriately, da Vinci painted this masterpiece on the wall of a dining hall in Milan |
| 27 | David Hockney | 4 | In 1968 this Brit began a series of double portraits; in 2019 "Henry Geldzahler & Christopher Scott" sold for $50 million |
| 28 | The Blue Boy | 4 | Thomas Gainsborough set the tone with the portrait seen |
| 29 | blue | 4 | The Japanese artist Hokusai was adept at using the dye of blue named for this onetime European kingdom |
| 30 | Venus | 3 | Botticelli's "Primavera" has this Roman goddess flanked by the 3 Graces with her son Amor overhead |
| 31 | Venice | 3 | An early 1730s work by Canaletto shows this canal city's "Quay of the Piazzetta" |
| 32 | the Louvre | 3 | In 1971 this museum honored Picasso's 90th birthday by hanging his work in its Grande Galerie |
| 33 | Sir Joshua Reynolds | 3 | This sir painted Lady Laura, Lady Maria & Lady Horatia Waldegrave in 1780 |
| 34 | Norman Rockwell | 3 | The Feb. 13, 1960 Saturday Evening Post contained his cover story "My Adventures as an Illustrator" |
| 35 | Marc Chagall | 3 | ( Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The distinctive Orthodox church in Vitebsk, the hometown of this artist, grounds the settin... |
| 36 | Grant Wood | 3 | This Iowan put "Washington Crossing the Delaware" in the background of his own "Daughters of Revolution" |
| 37 | Diego Rivera | 3 | "The Two Fridas" shows a bleeding, brokenhearted Frida Kahlo on the left, torn over her divorce from this artist |
| 38 | Sandro Botticelli | 3 | Talk about big, this Renaissance painter's "Birth of Venus" is over 9 feet long & nearly 6 feet high |
| 39 | Nighthawks | 3 | In this 1942 painting Edward Hopper modeled the face of the redhead at the counter after his wife |
| 40 | Holbein | 3 | This "Elder" of the art world was known for his silverpoint; his son was known for portraits of Henry VIII's wives |
| 41 | (Hieronymus) Bosch | 3 | A detail of a triptych by this 15th century Dutchman is seen here: |
| 42 | Whistler's Mother | 2 | Officially, this maternal painting is titled "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1" |
| 43 | Washington Crossing the Delaware | 2 | A portion of this heroic Emanuel Leutze masterpiece is seen here |
| 44 | Van Eyck | 2 | Last name of Flemish brothers Jan & Hubert, who both are credited with painting portions of the "Ghent Altarpiece" |
| 45 | Tony Bennett | 2 | This man left his heart in the painting seen here |
| 46 | the Sistine Chapel | 2 | As Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy", Charlton Heston initially resists the pope's orders to paint this room |
| 47 | the Sabine Women | 2 | "The Abduction of" these women by Roman leader Romulus was the subject of a Poussin painting |
| 48 | the Rhine | 2 | Dutch artist Joseph Knip painted a landscape along this mighty river that last passes through the Netherlands |
| 49 | The Persistence of Memory | 2 | Salvador Dali portrayed the real cliffs of Catalonia with the dreamlike image of melting watches in this 1931 painting |
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