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1
Robert S. Duncanson and other Ohio artists turned from portraits to landscape after viewing Thomas Cole’s
Course of Empire series
The Oxbow
Voyage of Life series
Niagara Falls
2
In what way does the artist clearly reference herself?
The mirror above the coffin is covered.
the young woman in the framed artwork
the initials on the coffin
the fine interior and fashionable furniture
3
The portrait of George Washington on the one-dollar bill is based on a painting by what artist?
Robert Edge Pine
Horatio Greenough
Gilbert Stuart
Charles Willson Peale
4
Edmonia Lewis was helped in her education and artistic training by whom?
a Baptist abolitionist school and prominent Boston abolitionists
a strong abolitionist community in Cincinnati
a group of Boston merchants and lawyers who financed her trip to Italy
the Boston painter Peter Pelham
5
In her portrait by Robert Edge Pine, Patience Wright is shown with gauzy fabric across her lap. What is the reference?
It was a memento mori, a reminder of death.
Wright’s involvement in textile design
The fabric alludes to Wright’s skill in embroidery.
Wax sculpting was done under her apron to heat the wax.
6
John Singleton Copley caught the attention of what artist when his painting Boy with a Squirrel was exhibited in London?
Peter Pelham
Emanuel Leutze
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Benjamin West
7
What symbolic meaning is attached to the weapon Washington offers?
It is a reminder that Washington passed on the Presidency after two terms.
This is the fasces, symbolizing Washington’s authority.
The extended sword asks the viewer to, like Washington, defend liberty.
It references Zeus and J.A.D. Ingres’ imperial portrait of Napoleon.
8
In this battle scene, Frenchmen are identifiable because they wear
their hair tied back and are hatless
wide-brimmed, brown hats
tricorne hats
sleeveless, layered jackets
9
Thomas Jefferson’s design for the Virginia State Capitol was based on
the Neoclassical Petit Trianon at Versailles, France
Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy
the Banqueting House in Whitehall, England, by Inigo Jones
an ancient Roman temple in southern France
10
John Smibert stands out among early colonial painters because he
chose to paint landscape initiating the Hudson River School
produced engraved copies of other’s paintings
was academically trained in London but worked in the colonies
established an art school in Boston
11
The engraving utilizes what technique to create shading?
stippling
tenebrism
crosshatching
impasto
12
In many cultures, the size of a figure in art reflects status. This is called
fractional representation
aerial perspective
asymmetrical balance
hierarchical scale
13
Horatio Greenough traveled abroad to study. He was the first American to live and train in what city?
London
Florence
Rome
Paris
14
Why was the Ohio River associated with the escape of enslaved people?
It connected to the Mississippi and abundant river traffic.
It connected to the Missouri River taking travelers westward.
It divided the slave-owning state of Kentucky from the free state of Ohio.
It divided the slave-owning state of West Virginia and free state of Ohio.
15
What did Benjamin West borrow from artistic tradition for his The Deathof General Wolfe?
the supportive figures and body position of the lamentation of Christ
the pose of the ancient Roman Borghese Warrior
the dynamic forward movement of Rembrandt’s Night Watch
Michelangelo’s figure of God in his fresco The Creation of Adam
16
In what period of history would clerics argue for extravagant church art, claiming it had a didactic purpose?
the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
the Gothic period known for elaborate fresco murals
Calvinist Protestants in seventeenth-century northern Europe
the Neoclassical period with its rational order and unemotional figures
17
What art form helped shape public opinion in the lead-up to the American Revolution?
large scale history paintings in public exhibitions
satiric ceramic works like toby jugs
engraved images such as broadsides and cartoons
medallions which could be cast in multiples
18
Who organized the first group exhibition of American artists in the United States?
Thomas Cole
William Notman
John Singleton Copley
Charles Willson Peale
19
Few of Patience Wright’s wax portraits survived because they were
destroyed in a devastating fire in 1771
not valued since they were made of wax, not metal or stone
of a material that broke or was damaged by temperature change
vandalized because she was an American patriot in London
20
Which term is BEST associated with the style of the Gaanax.ádi/Raven Crest Pole?
engraving
calico
formlines
earthwork
21
Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware depicts an episode in the Revolutionary War just before which battle?
Burning of Kingston
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Sullivan’s Island
22
The domestic interior of Prudence Punderson’s embroidery The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality shows evidence of
her rural upbringing
a family that was well-off
music as a pastime
abolitionist sympathies
23
Greenough’s seated figure of Washington is Neoclassical and idealized. The artist included realism in what aspect?
the well-worn plow to indicate the gentleman farmer
drapery which appears believable and tangible
the aging face, borrowed from another portrait’s factual likeness
anatomical understanding and body proportion
24
The Palladian style of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello is informed by ancient Roman architecture, as seen in the
triple-hung windows
large, central dome
placement against a mountainside
hidden second story
25
Who was the sculptor of the 1867 work Forever Free?
Harriet Powers
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Horatio Greenough
Edmonia Lewis
26
Early Colonial portrait painters were self-taught and
part of established academic salons
would have traveled to find commissions
involved in maritime trade for sales
often also specialized in religious subjects
27
The simple shirtsleeves and silversmithing tools impart what message?
the sitter’s humility
the nobility of work
the lack of wealth of the sitter
the aristocratic ambitions of the sitter
28
What refers to the circular areas of Pueblo Bonito?
Sherds
Chacos
Kivas
Reposteros
29
The imagery of the Gaanax.ádi/Raven Crest Pole may reference a legend involving the raven and what animal?
toad
dolphin
owl
whale
30
Why did the native Pueblo artists of the Segesser Hides work in a European style?
European trained Spanish artists oversaw workshops of native artists.
European books, pottery and more became influential to native style.
Influential murals were painted on church exteriors by European artists.
The missionaries had illustrated Bibles that offered examples.
31
What technique has the artist used to create a sense of deep space for his view of Cincinnati?
complementary colors
fractional representation
linear perspective
aerial perspective
32
The event in Paul Revere’s Boston Massacre began when a crowd of colonial laborers, apprentices and merchant sailors
threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers
tarred and feathered a drunk British captain
threw tea from a ship into the Boston Harbor
set fire to a barracks housing British soldiers
33
A Corinthian column can BEST be described as having a
plain square plinth as its capital
column capital with decorative spirals
smooth shaft leading to a capital
decorative capital of carved acanthus leaves
34
Harriet Powers’ appliqué techniques in her Pictorial Quilt are reminiscent of
tree of life quilts produced in Philadelphia
textiles of Dahomey in Western Africa
the story quilts of earlier artist Faith Ringgold
the totems of the Tlingit people
35
The Segesser Hides are named for
the skirmish pictured in Segesser I, which occurred near El Paso
an owner, a Jesuit priest who oversaw a mission in present-day Arizona
an owner, a Spanish governor of the Province of New Mexico
the artist and member of the Pueblo people
36
Phillis Wheatley published her first poem as a young teen in what journal?
Newport Mercury
Boston Globe
Graham’s Magazine
London Art Journal
37
European art academies established a hierarchy of subjects and the most elevated subject for art was
history
portraiture
still life
scenes of everyday life
38
The 18th century Enlightenment propelled scientific study. Which artwork shows an artist’s interest in science?
The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality by Prudence Punderson
George Washington (The Lansdowne Portrait) by Gilbert Stuart
View of Cincinnati, Ohio from Covington, Kentucky by Robert S. Duncanson
Exhumation of the Mastodon by Charles Willson Peale
39
Thomas Crawford’s sculpture, the Statue of Freedom at the U.S. Capitol dome was criticized as referencing
the radical phase of the French Revolution
the nude and sensuous Venus
Jacques Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Northern abolitionist sympathies
40
Monet was part of a movement that broke from the established rule of the Salon in Paris. What was the artistic movement?
Fauvism
Cubism
Impressionism
Romanticism
41
Along with Prudence Punderson’s sampler, which artwork canbe read like a triptych, divided vertically into 3 scenes?
Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware
Harriet Powers’ Pictorial Quilt
Benjamin’s West’s Penn’s Treaty with the Indians
John Singleton Copley’s Paul Revere
42
Vertical lines in architecture can carry the eye upward. This is BEST exemplified by what building?
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
the U.S. Capitol building
the Great Pyramids at Giza
the medieval Chartres Cathedral
43
Pop Art incorporates what type of imagery?
dream-like subjects as artists attempted to tap in the subconscious
images from mass culture like household products or celebrities
realist representations of the working class
pared down geometric shapes in primary colors
44
Sfumato means smokey in Italian, and it is used to describe shading in a paintedwork. What painting demonstrates it?
Jacques Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii
Segesser II, possibly produced by a Pueblo workshop
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
John Singleton Copley’s Paul Revere
45
What type of print-making process would be considered intaglio?
linoleum relief cut
engraving
wood relief cut
silkscreen
46
A Historic marker of sandstone quarried by slaves was installed acknowledging the work of enslaved people on...
the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.
the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
47
What likely caused the ancestral Pueblo people to abandon their Great Houses in the Chaco Canyon?
a series of devastating earthquakes
incursions from Spanish conquistadors
environmental changes causing diminished water supply
warfare with neighboring native groups
48
Rendered in art, prominent natural North American landmarks, like Niagara Falls, were used as
equivalents to similar views in Europe
border demarcations
symbols of nationalism
cautionary messages of the dangers of the wilderness
49
West knew that 1 aspect of this scene would make it especially compelling to audiences in England. What is that aspect?
the appearance of Native Americans
the focus on William Penn and Quakerism
a peaceful Catholic missionary effort
the secure appearance of colonial settlement
50
Some of the oldest African artworks have been found in Namibia. These are
cave paintings
wooden masks of the Fang people
bronze portrait heads of the Benin Kingdom
carved and painted wooden shields
