The artist’s friend Arnold Rönnebeck claimed a cursive “E” in this painting referenced his patron Queen Elisabeth of Greece, but it may refer to the artist’s birth name, Edmund. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this 1914 painting that features a silver spur, a yellow-on-blue inscription of the number 24, and a gold-on-red inscription of the initials “Kv.F.”
ANSWER: Portrait of a German Officer
[10e] The latent homoeroticism of Marsden Hartley’s Portrait of a German Officer is analyzed in Jonathan Weinberg’s book Speaking for Vice, which is titled for a quote by this artist of I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold.
ANSWER: Charles Demuth [or Charles Henry Buckius Demuth]
[10m] Weinberg also analyzes the homoeroticism of this sculpture, which Demuth described in a letter and poem. This work was photographed in front of Hartley’s The Warriors for the journal The Blind Man.
ANSWER: Fountain [prompt on Marcel Duchamp’s urinal; prompt on readymades]
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