Amy Sherald - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

This artist withdrew her solo show “American Sublime” from the National Gallery shortly after the gallery’s attempt to remove her depiction of the Statue of Liberty modeled after transgender artist Arewa Basit. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this artist of Trans Forming Liberty. This artist’s double portrait of two black women in bathing suits sold for nearly 4.2 million dollars in 2021.

ANSWER: Amy Sherald

[10e] In another Sherald painting, a woman with this surname is depicted with a Mondrian-like dress and gray skin. A painting of a person with this surname depicts the subject in front of chrysanthemums and is by Kehinde Wiley.

ANSWER: Obama [accept Barack Obama or Barack Hussein Obama II; accept Michelle Obama or Michelle Robinson Obama or Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama]

[10m] Sherald studied under a member of this movement who created a set of paintings titled Oranges. Grace Hartigan was a member of this movement, whose women artists were documented in the book Ninth Street Women.

ANSWER: abstract expressionism [or Ab-Ex; prompt on New York School]

<EW, Painting and Sculpture>

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	56%	44%	11%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	88%	38%	13%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	5	8.00	80%	0%	0%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	15.71	100%	29%	29%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	10.00	75%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	13.75	100%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford B	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Berkeley A	Berkeley D	10	10	10	30
UBC B	Brock	0	10	0	10
Florida C	Central Florida B	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida A	0	10	10	20
Central Florida C	Florida B	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Michigan State	0	0	0	0
Michigan A	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State C	0	10	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
CWRU B	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
UCLA B	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
UCSD C	UCLA A	0	0	0	0
UC Santa Barbara	UCSD A	0	0	0	0
UCSD B	Arizona State	0	0	10	10
Northwestern D	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Chicago E	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Purdue A	Illinois C	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Northwestern C	0	10	0	10
Indiana A	Notre Dame A	10	10	0	20
Bowdoin A	Yale	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Brown	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Southern Connecticut State	Brandeis A	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	James Madison B	0	10	10	20
Liberty A	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
NC State A	Virginia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	NC State B	0	0	0	0
Liberty B	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
South Carolina A	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina B	North Carolina A	0	0	0	0
VCU	Duke	0	10	10	20
Virginia	Wake Forest	10	10	10	30
Murray State A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	WashU B	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Kentucky	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	Georgia Tech B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
Alabama B	Sewanee	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Tennessee A	10	10	10	30
Louisville B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	0	10
Montpellier	Birmingham	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge C	City St. George's	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Cardiff	0	0	0	0
Edinburgh B	Durham	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Imperial A	0	10	0	10
Imperial B	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Imperial C	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
LSE	UCL	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Edinburgh A	0	10	0	10
Warwick B	Oxford C	0	0	0	0
Minnesota A	Claremont	0	10	10	20
Missouri A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Carleton College	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	Catholic	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
John Jay	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Rutgers B	Georgetown	0	10	0	10
Columbia C	Swarthmore	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Vassar	0	10	0	10
Binghamton B	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Penn State	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	RIT	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton A	0	0	0	0