Abbott Labs gifted this organization Thomas Hart Benton’s series The Year of Peril, which includes a painting that depicts a man sowing skulls like seeds. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this organization that removed a painting of its possibly-queer employees after Hugh Rodman claimed that it represented “a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl.”
ANSWER: United States Navy [or the US Navy; prompt on the United States Military or US Military; prompt on the navy by asking “of what country?”; prompt on sailors]
[10m] Paul Cadmus’s The Fleet’s In! was removed from this museum that also canceled Robert Mapplethorpe’s Perfect Moment exhibition in 1989. This DC museum distributed its collection for free after it closed in 2014.
ANSWER: Corcoran Gallery
[10e] Cadmus photographed queer men on Fire Island alongside Jared and Margaret, two magical realists with this surname. An earlier sculptor with this surname created a massive seated Abraham Lincoln.
ANSWER: French [accept Jared French, Margaret French, or Daniel Chester French]
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