The Banjo Lesson - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

This painting’s composition resembles an illustration its artist made for Ruth McEnery Stuart’s story “Uncle Tim’s Compromise on Christmas.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this 1893 painting that may have been inspired by a trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains. This genre painting depicts a seated elderly man and a child holding the title instrument.

ANSWER: The Banjo Lesson (by Henry Ossawa Tanner)

[10e] Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson was created for the Paris Salon, as was his 1898 depiction of this Biblical scene in which Mary gazes at a light beam representing Gabriel.

ANSWER: the Annunciation

[10m] Tanner’s depiction of the Annunciation is now held in this city’s namesake Museum of Art. Tanner’s teacher painted an anatomy lesson held by Samuel D. Gross in this city.

ANSWER: Philadelphia [or Philly; accept Philadelphia Museum of Art] (Tanner’s teacher was Thomas Eakins.)

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	60%	80%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	11	14.55	82%	36%	27%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	21.67	100%	100%	17%
Midwest	Main	Y	5	22.00	80%	100%	40%
North	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	57%	14%
Northeast	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
South Central	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	10	13.00	70%	50%	10%
UK	Main	Y	4	15.00	75%	75%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	7	22.86	100%	86%	43%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	10	13.00	70%	30%	30%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


Berkeley C	Stanford C	0	10	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley F	10	10	10	30
Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
UCSC	Stanford A	0	0	0	0
UCSD Vices and Virtues	Claremont Scripps	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Guelph B	10	0	10	20
McGill B	Queen's B	0	10	0	10
McMaster C	McGill C	10	0	0	10
McMaster A	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Toronto K	Queen's A	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Waterloo	10	10	10	30
Guelph A	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Toronto D	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto H	Toronto E	0	10	0	10
McGill A	Toronto J	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Toronto Metropolitan	0	10	10	20
Berkeley E	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
FIU	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UF E	0	10	10	20
Pitt B	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Kenyon B	0	10	10	20
OSU C	CWRU C	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	MSU B	10	10	10	30
OSU A	Kenyon A	0	10	10	20
OSU D	OSU B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Clemson B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	North Carolina C	0	10	10	20
Virginia B	North Carolina B	0	0	10	10
Tennessee A	Tusculum	0	10	10	20
Virginia A	South Carolina B	10	10	10	30
UMBC A	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland C	George Mason B	0	10	10	20
Catholic University	NYU B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Maryland A	10	10	10	30
Maryland B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
Penn A	VCU A	0	0	10	10
Swarthmore A	Princeton A	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	WashU D	10	10	10	30
WashU A	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	WashU B	0	10	0	10
WashU C	William Woods	0	10	0	10
Macalester B	Minnesota C	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
Macalester A	Nebraska	0	10	0	10
BU	Yale A	0	0	10	10
Cornell-UG	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Amherst A	10	10	10	30
MIT A	Brown A	0	10	10	20
Brandeis Lloyd George	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Bowdoin B	BC A	0	0	0	0
Brandeis Wilson	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth	Brown C	0	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Williams	MIT B	0	10	10	20
British Columbia A	Alberta	0	10	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia D	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Simon Fraser	0	10	10	20
Ohio	Northwestern B	10	10	10	30
Arizona State A	Tulsa	0	10	10	20
Texas A	UTD B	0	10	10	20
UTD A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
UCO	McGill D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Sewanee A	10	10	10	30
Bruin A	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt B	UAB A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Vanderbilt A	10	10	10	30
Auburn A	Alabama B	0	10	10	20
Auburn B	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Huntsville B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Rose State	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Birmingham A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Oxford A	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Edinburgh A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Sheffield A	Imperial A	10	10	10	30
Imperial C	City St George's A	0	0	0	0
Sheffield B	Durham A	0	0	0	0
Warwick A	Manchester A	10	10	10	30
Oxford B	Edinburgh B	0	0	0	0
Warwick B	Cambridge B	0	10	0	10
Cornell-DII	Binghamton A	0	10	10	20
RIT B	RIT A	0	10	10	20
Syracuse	Rochester	0	10	10	20