Your Friday Challenge Question! This week: Places Painters Portrayed.

[CTyankee]

The following images are of places portrayed by artists who spent time there, whether they were their homes or places that inspired their work, and are infused with their unique style.

Can you name the artist and the place?

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[alstephenson]

1. Kandinsky?

Somewhere in Russia?

[CTyankee]

7. Which one?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. 4 and 6 look like Venice. that's all I got...

[CTyankee]

31. 6 is correct in the place. Not 4.

[suffragette]

50. Is that in the Venice ghetto?

[CTyankee]

53. Venice is correct...not sure exactly where...don't think so..but...???

[alsame]

3. 1 looks like a Van Gogh, 2 looks like a Picasso. Am I close?

[CTyankee]

8. No, actually...

[alsame]

14. LOL, I knew it seemed too easy. nt

[jannyk]

4. Bookmarking for later (not that I ever have the answers) eom

[Hannah Bell]

5. 3 = wyeth.....?

[CTyankee]

9. Yes, ma'am! It's "blue door."

Are you a fan of Wyeth's?

[Hannah Bell]

12. not especially -- but father & son's style is similar & distinctive.

[CTyankee]

16. I find his work haunting...almost the rural equivalent of E.Hopper's cities...

[tpsbmam]

37. Christina's World

When I was a kid, my grandparents had a Christina's World print hanging on the stairway leading up to the 2nd floor where all of the bedrooms were. It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid -- I used to literally run past it going up and down the stairs. That, to me, is powerful art when it can have that kind of effect on someone. I really wondered later what it was that scared me so -- it was at a very visceral level. I'm with you -- I grew to really appreciate it as an adult and find much of his work haunting. It no longer scares me but many of his paintings still have a really visceral, haunting effect on me.

[CTyankee]

39. The loneliness in his works is just stunning...he does it so effortlessly.

"Blue Door" is haunting because of its isolation, the dilapidation around it, the wonderful diagonal sunlight...what a great work it is...

[sufrommich]

6. #3. Andrew Wyeth somewhere in Maine? nt

[CTyankee]

11. Either Maine or Eastern Pennsylvania, since he painted both places.

[Coventina]

10. No, I can't, but here are some lame guesses:

1. Coast of the Mediterranian, Post-impressionist painter.

2. That looks like an Arshile Gorky work to me.

3. Henry O. Tanner?

4. Almost looks like a Dutch Old Master, but not quite.

5. Matisse in Morocco?

6. Looks like Venice to me. Artist is on the tip of my brain, but won't resolve into a name.

[CTyankee]

13. You are absolutely right on #1.

No on the others, except on 6...place is correct...

[Coventina]

18. OK, is 5 New Mexico? O'Keefe? n/t

[CTyankee]

20. No, you were closer with your first answer...

[Coventina]

22. Is no. 2 Jackson Pollock?

I'm going to stab myself when someone guesses number 6 because I KNOW THE ARTIST, except I can't spit out his name!

Is 5 Tangiers?

[CTyankee]

25. No. 6 is probablematic because of its medium for this artist.

No. 2 is not Pollack. on no. 5, not Tangiers, but...not too far...

[sufrommich]

15. Is #6 Albrecht Durer?

[CTyankee]

17. I see what you are saying with Durer here, but it is way later...

[suffragette]

19. 1) Regatta at Cowes by Raoul Dufy.

[CTyankee]

21. Aha, how did you find it?

[suffragette]

23. Started with Kandinsky

Which led to some other pics by Dufy.
Those looked closer in style, so put in sailboats.
Noticed the flags, thought why flags?, thought, so searched on regatta, et voilà!

[CTyankee]

26. Dufy was big on regattas. He painted LOTS of sailboats and pics of the beach

in the Riviera...he portrayed a lovely world, didn't he?

[suffragette]

35. Very lovely

I should have arrived at that more directly, since I saw some of his works at the Courtauld a couple years ago.
So much there that was amazing.

#4 is getting to me. I feel I've seen the painting, the place or both, but can't remember.


edited: put 5, meant 4

[CTyankee]

40. Chances are you've seen many of the artist's work who did no. 4, just

not in that venue always...but he did works there...

[CTyankee]

52. Are you in the U.K.?

[suffragette]

60. No, I'm in Seattle

I have a friend who lives in London and went to the Courtauld my last visit there.

Have you been there?
It has a gem of a collection: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/index.shtml
It also has a nice little courtyard cafe, a serene place although it is so near the center of business.

Their website doesn't include everything that's there. There was one painting I had hoped I'd find a card or something of in the shop, but it wasn't there or on their site. Finally found a picture someone took of it and use it as a background on my desktop occasionally.

[Generic Other]

24. #3 is Andrew Wyeth "The Blue Door"

Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford PA?

[CTyankee]

46. Could be. I couldn't find out. It's from the early 1950s...could be that or Maine since

he painted both places (interestingly).

[walldude]

27. Nope not a one.. but the only one I like is the last one..

Reminds me of M.C. Escher...

[CTyankee]

38. Escher is a bit later than this artist...

[flying rabbit]

28. Is #2 a de Kooning?

if it is, then I would say New York

[CTyankee]

30. Good on de Kooning...ain't New York...it's prolly his signature piece...

I think you'll be surprised at the place...

[sufrommich]

32. Ashville, N.C.

I cheated and looked it up.

[CTyankee]

33. How did you look it up?

[sufrommich]

34. Google image search. nt

[CTyankee]

44. What did you look FOR? Was it abstract works or modern works of places, etc?

I'm really interested in creative Google image searches...

[sufrommich]

48. I really just googled William DeKooning and looked for the

painting with the big eye. Oh, how I wish I could give you a great story of fine detective work! :-)

[CTyankee]

54. I find it hard to detect these abstract works...mystery so much to me...

[Coventina]

29. delete, replied in wrong spot

[EFerrari]

36. Is #4 Amsterdam?

Great collection!

[CTyankee]

41. No...not Amsterdam...interesting response tho...

[Generic Other]

42. Maybe Oxford

Not sure who painted it though

[CTyankee]

43. Well...

[CTyankee]

57. Who would have painted Oxford?

[horseshoecrab]

58. J.M.W. Turner

High Street, Oxford by J. M. W. Turner

Thank you for the Oxford clue generic other. I was lost without it!

Link: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/ronrad/4337458434/&usg=__duS_OWF2t1vk4y53TPGvLSRr-tg=&h=373&w=500&sz=144&hl=en&start=36&sig2=lq7C6ju_thfZK-bXXrrFqQ&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=nOFxz1vATKD7TM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJoseph%2BMurray%2BInce%26start%3D21%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D21%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=6soCTYbfFYO8lQfksaDPCQ

[CTyankee]

61. Hi, horseshoecrab!

Glad you got it! This one confused folks I think because of the academic gowns on the people in the painting...that and the old architecture made it look like a work by a l5th century artist. I can see how it could be misleading...

[horseshoecrab]

62. the oxford dons

Hi CTankee.

Agreed about the confusion. I had thought the spires in the painting were England, but couldn't reconcile the academic looking gowns until the Oxford clue from Generic Other and you.

Hope that I have time to get this in. Number 6 is James McNeil Whistler. It's etching and drypoint, a completely different medium for him. My search terms on Google Images were: "Venice etching dark" and it was right up there on the list of hits. It's called Two Doorways.

Thanks, as always, for these challenges!




edited to correct Whistler etching title.

[CTyankee]

63. Great! No one else got it...

[jannyk]

45. is 'Venice' by a dutch artist?

[CTyankee]

47. No...

[jannyk]

49. Bummer. Is #5 Tangiers or Rabat

[CTyankee]

51. close...but not tangiers or rabat...

[jannyk]

55. Cairo? Warmer or colder?

[CTyankee]

56. Ugh, don't have a map...but pretty close I would think, just don't have it handy...sorry...

[CTyankee]

59. Answers tomorrow for 4, 5 and 6.