Mary Cassatt - Eastern Canada

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


Northern California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Southern California	Main	Y	6	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Eastern Canada	Main	Y	11	15.45	82%	55%	18%
Florida	Main	Y	5	10.00	80%	0%	20%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	7	17.14	86%	71%	14%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	60%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (1)	Main	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic (2)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
Lower Midwest	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upper Midwest	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
North	Main	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	92%	42%	8%
Northwest	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	8	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
UK	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


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