Mary Cassatt - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This artist was inspired by a Kitagawa Utamaro ukiyo-e print to create several drypoint etchings of a woman adjusting her hair in front of a mirror. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this artist who was commissioned by Bertha Palmer to paint a triptych mural about “Modern Women.” A woman holds a baby dressed in pink as a man rows a yellow canoe in this artist’s The Boating Party.

ANSWER: Mary Cassatt [or Mary Stevenson Cassatt] (The lead-in refers to The Coiffure.)

[10h] In a letter to Paul Durand-Ruel (“due-RAWN rue-ELL”), Cassatt expressed regret over sitting for an Edgar Degas portrait titled after these objects. Four pipes hang on a wall in two of five entries from a Paul Cézanne series titled after these objects.

ANSWER: playing cards [or cartes; accept Mary Cassatt Seated, Holding Cards; accept The Card Players or Les Joueurs de cartes]

[10e] Critic Gustave Geffroy grouped Cassatt with Marie Barcquemond and Berthe Morisot as the “three great ladies” of this movement that used visible brushstrokes and unblended colors to emphasize the effects of light.

ANSWER: Impressionism [or Impressionists]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	11	15.45	82%	55%	18%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	71%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
North	Main	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
South Central	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	0	10	20
Claremont Scripps	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
USC	UCI	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCSB	0	0	10	10
UCLA D	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	10	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	0	10	10
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCLA A	0	0	10	10
Queen's A	Guelph A	0	0	10	10
McGill A	McMaster C	10	0	10	20
McGill C	Toronto D	0	0	10	10
Toronto F	McMaster A	0	0	0	0
Toronto C	Queen's B	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Toronto E	10	0	10	20
Toronto H	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
Ottawa	Toronto I	10	10	10	30
McGill B	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	Carleton	10	0	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	0	0	10	10
Stanford A	Berkeley F	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	0	10	10
Berkeley D	Stanford C	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	UCSC	10	10	10	30
Melbourne A	ERAU A	0	0	10	10
UCF B	UF A	0	0	10	10
UF D	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
UF E	UCF A	0	0	10	10
USF	FIU	0	10	10	20
Pitt B	MSU A	10	0	10	20
Pitt C	CWRU A	10	0	10	20
Clemson A	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Clemson B	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
James Madison	Liberty C	10	0	10	20
Liberty A	Roanoke	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	NC State	10	0	10	20
North Carolina A	South Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Virginia A	Tusculum	10	0	10	20
Virginia B	North Carolina C	10	10	10	30
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10	20
South Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	0	0	10	10
MSU B	CWRU B	0	0	0	0
OSU A	CWRU C	0	10	10	20
OSU B	Pitt A	10	0	10	20
OSU C	Kenyon A	10	0	10	20
OSU D	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
George Washington B	George Mason A	0	0	10	10
Maryland D	George Washington A	10	0	10	20
Georgetown B	George Mason C	10	0	10	20
Georgetown A	NYU A	10	0	10	20
NYU B	Maryland A	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Notre Dame E	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10	20
Penn B	Johns Hopkins C	0	0	10	10
UMBC A	Catholic University	0	0	10	10
VCU A	Johns Hopkins B	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Lehigh A	Swarthmore A	0	0	10	10
Lehigh B	Princeton A	0	0	10	10
Missouri B	WashU D	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU D	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Truman State	WashU C	0	0	10	10
WashU A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
SIUE	William Woods	0	0	10	10
Rutgers B	Vassar A	10	0	10	20
Rutgers C	Rowan A	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU D	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU D	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Missouri B	WashU C	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20
Indiana A	Chicago C	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame D	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Notre Dame B	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Louisville B	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Kentucky	10	0	10	20
Michigan D	Louisville A	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Notre Dame A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Illinois B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame C	Purdue C	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	UIC	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Macalester B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Amherst B	10	0	0	10
Tufts A	BC A	0	0	10	10
Bowdoin A	Brandeis Lloyd George	0	0	10	10
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Orlando	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Wilson	Yale B	0	0	10	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	Brown A	0	0	10	10
BU	Brown B	0	0	10	10
BC B	Brown C	0	0	10	10
Harvard	MIT B	10	0	10	20
Dartmouth	Tufts B	10	10	10	30
Williams	Amherst A	10	0	10	20
British Columbia A	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia B	British Columbia D	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Alberta	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Washington B	0	0	10	10
MIT A	Bowdoin B	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Alberta B	10	0	10	20
Arizona State A	Ohio	10	0	10	20
Iowa	Northwestern A	10	0	10	20
Northwestern C	UTD A	0	0	10	10
Rose State	Arizona State B	0	0	10	10
Texas A	UCO	10	0	10	20
Tulsa	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
McGill D	UTD B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Auburn B	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Auburn A	10	0	10	20
Alabama B	Huntsville A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	UAB A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Sewanee A	10	0	10	20
Huntsville B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	0	10	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	0	10	20
Cornell-DII	RIT B	0	0	10	10
Syracuse	Rochester	0	0	10	10