Painting Study Guide

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Van Gogh 13x $408 avg J:6 DJ:7

J $200 2023 Completed in 1888, his oil-on-canvas "Self-Portrait as a Painter" shows him with at least one of his ears

J $600 2017 His Wheatfield with Crowswas painted in 1890, the last year of his life

J $1,000 DD 2003 Seen here is this artist's portrait of Dr. Gachet, who had treated him for depression

Picasso 12x $517 avg J:2 DJ:10

DJ $400 2023 "The Old Guitarist" is one of the most famous paintings of this artist's Blue Period

DJ $600 1996 His "Guernica", showing the horrors of war, was once exhibited at the Prado behind bulletproof glass

J $1,000 2011 1903:"The Old Guitarist"

Francisco Goya 8x 12.5% stumper $1,225 avg J:2 DJ:6

DJ $400 2010 In the early 19th century, this Spaniard painted "The Clothed Maja"

J $600 2010 Known for terrible scenes of May 1808, herehe shows the happy May 15th fiesta of Madrid's patron saint

DJ $1,200 2015 In this Spaniard's "Portrait of the Duchess of Alba", the subject of the painting points to the artist's name at her feet

Jan Vermeer 8x 12.5% stumper $1,425 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $200 1988 This Dutchman was also called Jan van der Meer van Delft to distinguish him from others of the same name

J $1,000 DD 2011 Circa 1665:"Girl with a Pearl Earring"

DJ $4,000 DD 2015 The lady in this Dutchman's "A Lady Writing" wears a yellow jacket, hair ribbons & pearl earrings

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Winslow Homer 7x 57.1% stumper $1,314 avg J:1 DJ:6

J $400 2002 Painted in 1895, "Northeaster" is a well known seascape by this American artist

DJ $800 2020 This New Englander known for his stormy seas painted a calmer 1869 "Beach Scene"

DJ $1,200 2010 "A Fair Wind", an 1876 work by this U.S. painter, shows a catboat at sea bearing the name Gloucester; d'oh!

Whistler 6x $933 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 2018 After painting good ol' Mom in 1871, he soon rendered "Miss Cicely Alexander: Harmony in Grey and Green"

DJ $800 2023 His "Symphony in White, No. 1" isn't of his mother, but of his mistress & frequent companion, Joanna Hiffernan

DJ $1,600 2019 Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2", not as big a hit as "No. 1"

Gauguin 6x 16.7% stumper $500 avg J:2 DJ:4

DJ $200 1996 His 1899 painting of 2 Tahitian women is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

DJ $800 2025 Though better known for his Tahitian paintings, this Frenchman also did a "Still Life with Three Puppies"

J $400 2023 Before taking off for Tahiti, he painted "The Yellow Christ" & "Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ"

Rembrandt 5x 20.0% stumper $1,040 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2021 This painter's 1632 "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" shows Amsterdam's annual public autopsy, held in winter when the stench was less

DJ $800 2022 In 2015 the Dutch government pledged $90 million to bring home 2 works by this local 17th century man who needed but one name

DJ $3,000 DD 2009 His 1653 work "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer" was one of the few sent abroad during his lifetime

the Mona Lisa 5x $350 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $200 1985 Also known as "La Gioconda", it's the most valuable painting in the world

FJ 2010 The alternate name of this 16th century Italian painting also means "cheerful"

J $400 2018 The semi-smiling woman in this portrait begun in 1503 may be the wife of a wealthy silk merchant in Florence

The Scream 4x $533 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

DJ $400 2025 In 1994 this iconic Edvard Munch painting was stolen from a museum in Oslo; makes me just want to...; luckily it was recovered

J $600 2021 Unafraid to give another shout-out to a good idea, Edvard Munch did versions of this in 1893, 1895 & around 1910

FJ 2021 In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman"

Mary Cassatt 4x 25.0% stumper $1,750 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 In 1892 the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago hired this woman impressionist to paint a mural

DJ $1,600 2008 Two women share a cup of tea in this woman's 1880 painting seen here

DJ $800 2010 This female Impressionist helped Americans collect art, like the Havemeyers, whose collection went to the Met

Guernica 4x $500 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 2012 Commissioned by the Spanish government, this monumental Picasso work measures 11 feet by 25 feet

J $600 2025 In 1937 Picasso responded to the killing of thousands in a Basque town by painting this mural

FJ 2005 It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair

Grandma Moses 4x $525 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 2000 Old Testament leader depicted here by Philippe de Champaigne:(holding Ten Commandments)

DJ $800 2007 In 1905 she & her husband bought a farm at Hoosick Falls, N.Y., where she stayed until her death in 1961

J $400 2013 She was never too old to paint: really AMRM, but known as GM

Diego Rivera 4x 25.0% stumper $1,000 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1998 At age 4 in Guanajuato, Mexico, he was already drawing on the walls

DJ $800 2012 At his death in 1957, he left behind an unfinished mural for the National Palace on the history of Mexico

DJ $1,200 2012 "The Two Fridas"shows a bleeding, brokenhearted Frida Kahloon theleft, torn over her divorce from this artist

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 4x $400 avg J:1 DJ:1 FJ:2

J $400 2005 Painted around 1876, his"Au Moulin de la Galette"was purchased in 1990 for $78 million

FJ 2006 He said, “You could find me anytime at Fournaise’s”, a restaurant right on the Seine

FJ 1997 His grandson was the cinematographer of "Barbarella" & "The Spy Who Loved Me"

Monet 4x $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $200 2025 John Singer Sargent captured this fellow artist "Painting by the Edge of a Wood", not in his Japanese garden

DJ $800 2004 The Manet painting seenhereshows this similarly named artist in his studio boat

DJ $1,600 2002 In 1873 Renoir painted this fellow French Impressionist "Painting in His Garden"

Worth Knowing (44)

Venice 3 Toulouse-Lautrec 3 The Last Supper 3 Sir Joshua Reynolds 3 Seurat 3 Marc Chagall 3 Manet 3 John Singer Sargent 3 Georgia O'Keeffe 3 Rubens 3 Norman Rockwell 3 Nighthawks 3 Jacques-Louis David 3 Holbein 3 Frida Kahlo 3 Whistler's Mother 2 Venus 2 Van Eyck 2 Tony Bennett 2 the Sistine Chapel 2 the Sabine Women 2 the Rhine 2 The Blue Boy 2 the Black Prince 2 Sandro Botticelli 2 Raphael 2 Marat 2 Leonardo da Vinci 2 La Grande Jatte 2 Jackson Pollock 2 Grant Wood 2 Basquiat 2 ballerinas 2 Adam & Eve 2 the Tower of Babel 2 Thomas Hart Benton 2 the Moulin Rouge 2 the Medusa 2 Primavera 2 Mondrian 2 Marcel Duchamp 2 I Shot Andy Warhol 2 Hieronymus Bosch 2 Edgar Degas 2

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