AcaDec Art 2022

Question 1

Along with Prudence Punderson’s sampler, which artwork be read like a triptych, divided vertically into three scenes

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Benjamin’s West’s Penn’s Treaty with the Indians

Question 2

Early Colonial portrait painters were self-taught and

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would have traveled to find commissions

Question 3

The domestic interior of Prudence Punderson’s embroidery The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortalityshows evidence of

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a family that was well-off

Question 4

Who was the sculptor of the 1867 work Forever Free?

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Edmonia Lewis

Question 5

What did Benjamin West borrow from artistic tradition for his The Deathof General Wolfe?

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the supportive figures and body position of the lamentation of Christ

Question 6

Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware depicts an episode in the Revolutionary War justbefore which battle?

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Battle of Trenton

Question 7

Phillis Wheatley published her first poem as a young teen in what journal?

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Newport Mercury

Question 8

The event shown in Paul Revere’s Boston Massacre began when a crowd of colonial laborers, apprentices and merchants

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threw snowballs and rocks at British soldiers

Question 9

John Singleton Copley caught the attention of what artist when his painting Boy with a Squirrel wasexhibited in London?

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Benjamin West

Question 10

Like many American artists, Horatio Greenough traveled abroad to study. He was the first American to train in what city?

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Florence

Question 11

Why did the native Pueblo artists of the Segesser Hides work in a European style?

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European-trained Spanish artists oversaw the workshops of native artists

Question 12

The Segesser Hides are named for

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an owner, a Jesuit priest who oversaw a mission in present-day Arizona

Question 13

A Corinthian column can BEST be described as having a

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decorative capital of carved acanthus leaves

Question 14

Edmonia Lewis was helped in her education and artistic training by whom?

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a Baptist abolitionist school and prominent Boston abolitionists

Question 15

The portrait of George Washington on the one-dollar bill is based on a painting by what artist?

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Gilbert Stuart

Question 16

European art academies established a hierarchy of subjects and the most elevated subject for art was

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history

Question 17

Thomas Crawford’s sculpture, the Statue of Freedom at the U.S. Capitol dome was criticized as referencing

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Northern abolitionist sympathies

Question 18

In her portrait by Robert Edge Pine, Patience Wright is shown with gauzy fabric across her lap. What is thereference?

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Wax sculpting was done under her apron to heat the wax.

Question 19

In 2012, a historic marker of sandstone was installed acknowledging the work ofenslaved people on what building?

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the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.

Question 20

Harriet Powers’ appliqué techniques in her Pictorial Quilt are reminiscent of

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textiles of Dahomey in Western Africa

Question 21

Thomas Jefferson’s design for the Virginia State Capitol was based on

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an ancient Roman temple in southern France

Question 22

What art form helped shape public opinion in the lead-up to the American Revolution?

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engraved images such as broadsides and cartoons

Question 23

Few of Patience Wright’s wax portraits survived because they were

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of a material that broke or was damaged by temperature change

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