Question
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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 12.86 | 86% | 33% | 10% |
Data
| Cornell A | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Chicago D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Florida | Kentucky | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Duke | Harvard | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Iowa State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Ottawa | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | NYU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue | Northwestern | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Penn | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Arizona State | South Carolina | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Vanderbilt | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |