One of these people stands behind a large wooden “V” into which a man is hammering a wedge in a painting by Horace Pippin. For 10 points each:
[10h] What sort of person is depicted as geometric forms over a black background in Norman Lewis’s American Totem? Another artist often painted cartoonish depictions of these people holding cigars against pink backgrounds.
ANSWER: Klansmen [accept members of the KKK or Ku Klux Klan or the Klan] (The Pippin painting is Mr. Prejudice, and the artist is Philip Guston.)
[10e] Pippin variously painted this president pardoning a sentry, building a cabin, and as a Good Samaritan. Pippin made a portrait of Marian Anderson after her concert in front of Daniel Chester French’s sculpture of this president.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10m] Pippin’s John Brown Going to His Hanging inspired this artist’s series The Legend of John Brown. People enter doors marked for various cities in the first entry of a 60-painting series that this artist made for the WPA.
ANSWER: Jacob Lawrence [or Jacob Armstead Lawrence] (The series is his Migration Series.)
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