Memorize these and you could recognize 37.4% of all Painting clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Van Gogh | 13 | In 1889 he painted a self-portrait showing himself with a pipe & bandaged ear |
| 2 | Picasso | 12 | "The Tragedy" & "The Blind Man's Meal" were 1903 works during the "Blue Period" of this Spaniard |
| 3 | Francisco Goya | 8 | This "Third of May" artist covered the walls of his country house in grotesque paintings |
| 4 | Jan Vermeer | 8 | This Dutchman was also called Jan van der Meer van Delft to distinguish him from others of the same name |
| 5 | Winslow Homer | 7 | "A Fair Wind", an 1876 work by this U.S. painter, shows a catboat at sea bearing the name Gloucester; d'oh! |
| 6 | Whistler | 6 | His "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle" hangs in Glasgow |
| 7 | Gauguin | 6 | In his book "Noa Noa" he wrote about Tahiti, "Here I enter into truth, become one with nature" |
| 8 | Rembrandt | 5 | His 17th century work seen here is known as "The Jewish Bride": |
| 9 | the Mona Lisa | 5 | The alternate name of this 16th century Italian painting also means "cheerful" |
| 10 | The Scream | 4 | Edvard Munch's diary entry describing "flaming clouds" & "shivering with anxiety" inspired this iconic 1893 work |
| 11 | Mary Cassatt | 4 | Two women share a cup of tea in this woman's 1880 painting seen here |
| 12 | Guernica | 4 | It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair |
| 13 | Grandma Moses | 4 | Although her hands were crippled with arthritis, she began painting in oils in 1938 at age 77 |
| 14 | Diego Rivera | 4 | His first major mural was painted at the Univ. of Mexico's Nat'l Preparatory School in the 1920s |
| 15 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | 4 | His grandson was the cinematographer of "Barbarella" & "The Spy Who Loved Me" |
| 16 | Monet | 4 | The Manet painting seenhereshows this similarly named artist in his studio boat |
| 17 | Venice | 3 | Canaletto's "Arrival of the French Ambassador" shows him arriving in this city |
| 18 | Toulouse-Lautrec | 3 | One of his "At the Moulin Rouge" series shows "The Start of the Quadrille" |
| 19 | The Last Supper | 3 | Appropriately, da Vinci painted this masterpiece on the wall of a dining hall in Milan |
| 20 | Sir Joshua Reynolds | 3 | His experiments with thick paints gave this 18th c. British portraitist the nickname "Sir Sploshua" |
| 21 | Seurat | 3 | He was born December 2, 1859 in Paris, if you get the "point" |
| 22 | Marc Chagall | 3 | Paintings by this man include 1913's "Paris Through the Window" & 1914's "Over Vitebsk" |
| 23 | Manet | 3 | Victorine Meurend, his "Chanteuse des rues", is the nude in his "Le dejeuner sur l'herbe" |
| 24 | John Singer Sargent | 3 | The influence of "Las Meninas" is apparent in "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by this three-named artist |
| 25 | Georgia O'Keeffe | 3 | After she moved to New Mexico, bare bones & desert flowers became frequent motifs in her paintings |
| 26 | Rubens | 3 | As a diplomat in the 1620s, this 3-named artist helped negotiate a treaty between England & Spain |
| 27 | Norman Rockwell | 3 | During WWII posters of his paintings of "The Four Freedoms" were distributed by the Office of War Information |
| 28 | Nighthawks | 3 | In this 1942 painting Edward Hopper modeled the face of the redhead at the counter after his wife |
| 29 | Jacques-Louis David | 3 | His twin daughters both married generals, & his portrait of one of his sons-in-law is seen here |
| 30 | Holbein | 3 | This "Elder" of the art world was known for his silverpoint; his son was known for portraits of Henry VIII's wives |
| 31 | Frida Kahlo | 3 | 1937:"Portrait of Diego Rivera" |
| 32 | Whistler's Mother | 2 | This monochrome portrait of a woman is actually titled "Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1" |
| 33 | Venus | 2 | Rubens often painted his young wife Helene as this love goddess, as in her "and Adonis" |
| 34 | Van Eyck | 2 | Last name of Flemish brothers Jan & Hubert, who both are credited with painting portions of the "Ghent Altarpiece" |
| 35 | Tony Bennett | 2 | This man left his heart in the painting seen here |
| 36 | the Sistine Chapel | 2 | 1508-1512 project that includedthe following: |
| 37 | the Sabine Women | 2 | The French Academy used Nicolas Poussin's "The Abduction of" these women as a teaching example |
| 38 | the Rhine | 2 | This river forms the southern & western borders of Germany's Black Forest region |
| 39 | The Blue Boy | 2 | Jonathan Buttall, the son of one of Gainsborough's friends, was the model for this famous painting |
| 40 | the Black Prince | 2 | Famous nickname of the eldest son of England's King Edward III |
| 41 | Sandro Botticelli | 2 | Talk about big, this Renaissance painter's "Birth of Venus" is over 9 feet long & nearly 6 feet high |
| 42 | Raphael | 2 | The cherub seen here [rest of clue missing due to sound problem] |
| 43 | Marat | 2 | Like David, Edvard Munch did a painting called "The Death" of this man, but he placed him on a bed, not in a bath |
| 44 | Leonardo da Vinci | 2 | His 2nd & 3rd most famous women's portraits are "Cecilia Gallerani" & "Ginevra de' Benci" |
| 45 | La Grande Jatte | 2 | Georges Seurat was just 26 when he completed his masterpiece "A Sunday on" this island |
| 46 | Jackson Pollock | 2 | This "dripper", who painted on the floor, was a student of Missouri muralist Thomas Hart Benton |
| 47 | Grant Wood | 2 | A year after "American Gothic", he painted "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" |
| 48 | Basquiat | 2 | In 2020 more than $100 million bought "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump", a 1982 piece by this New York painter who died young in 1988 |
| 49 | ballerinas | 2 | In many of Degas' paintings, these girls are wearing long black ribbons around their necks |