Question
One of these people stands behind a large wooden “V” into which a man is hammering a wedge in a painting by Horace Pippin. For 10 points each:
[10h] What sort of person is depicted as geometric forms over a black background in Norman Lewis’s American Totem? Another artist often painted cartoonish depictions of these people holding cigars against pink backgrounds.
ANSWER: Klansmen [accept members of the KKK or Ku Klux Klan or the Klan] (The Pippin painting is Mr. Prejudice, and the artist is Philip Guston.)
[10e] Pippin variously painted this president pardoning a sentry, building a cabin, and as a Good Samaritan. Pippin made a portrait of Marian Anderson after her concert in front of Daniel Chester French’s sculpture of this president.
ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
[10m] Pippin’s John Brown Going to His Hanging inspired this artist’s series The Legend of John Brown. People enter doors marked for various cities in the first entry of a 60-painting series that this artist made for the WPA.
ANSWER: Jacob Lawrence [or Jacob Armstead Lawrence] (The series is his Migration Series.)
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Summary
California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 83% | 17% | 0% |
Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
Data
Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Case Western B | Michigan D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Kenyon | Case Western A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Ohio State A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan C | Ohio State B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |