1. 20 th Century Artist Scavenger Hunt Four Very Different Artists

2. Pablo Picasso Picasso was born in Spain in 1881 but spent most of his adult life in France. He is most noted for his paintings but he was also a sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright. He was 91 when he died. The 3 periods that dominated his work were: Blue Period, Rose Period, Modern (Cubism, Classicism/Surrealism, African Influenced) His mural sized paining, “Guernica,” was in response to the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War by Germany and Italy in 1937. Depicting the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon innocent people, the painting is regarded as the single most important work of the 20 th century by some art historians.

3. Pablo Picasso, the man

4. Piet Mondrian Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who lived from 1872-1944. He work is dominated by the De Stijl movement (Dutch for “The Style”). This style, non-representational which is sometimes referred to as pure abstraction, is essentially form (lines) and color, i.e., the primary colors plus black and white. He was and is still considered the founder of Modern Art. His initial artwork prior to the De Stijl movement was heavily influenced Picasso’s Cubism.

5. Piet Mondrian

6. Grant Wood Grant Wood was an American painter born in Iowa in 1891. He died in 1942. His style is described as Regionalism. Most of his work depicts rural American themes of the Midwest. After graduating from high school, he enrolled in an art school in Minneapolis in 1910. After working a year as a teacher in a one room schoolhouse, Wood trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1913. Wood is best known for his painting, “American Gothic.”

7. L. S. Lowry L. S. Lowry was an English artist who was born in 1887 in Stretford, Lancashire, United Kingdom. His is known mainly for his paintings of industrial districts and urban landscapes. His human figures are sometimes referred to as “matchstick men.” Although he was a famous artist who earned many awards, Lowry worked at Pall Mall Property Company until he was 65 and did his painting at night and when he was on holiday.

8. L. S. Lowry

9. Sleeping Drinker

10. Guernica

11. Buste de Femme

12. The Old Guitarist

13. Crazy Woman with Cats

14. Woman with Loaves

15. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

16. Garcon a la pipe

17. Les Noces de Pierrette

18. Femme Acrobat

19. Femme Couchee Lisant

20. Girl Before a Mirror

21. Guernica

22. Nude Green Leaves and Bust

23. Pichet au Fleurs

24. Seated Woman

25. The Weeping Woman

26. Three Musicians

27. Sleeping Woman

28. Tragedy

29. Abstraction

30. Chrysanthemum

31. Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow

32. Composition No. 2

33. Gray Tree

34. Houses on the Gein

35. Lonely Tree at the Gein

36. Pier and Ocean

37. Seated Woman

38. Sailboat Moored in a River

39. Self Portrait

40. American Gothic

41. Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

42. Daughters of Revolution

43. Arnold Comes of Age

44. City Album

45. January

46. Near Sundown

47. Parson Weem’s Fable

48. Portrait of Francis Fiske Marshall

49. Woman with Plant

50. Young Corn

51. Appraisal

52. Coming From the Mill

53. Station Approach

54. Coming Out of School

55. Going to the Match

56. Going to Work

57. Industrial Landscape

58. Man Lying on a Wall

59. Portrait of Ann

60. The Pond

61. Yachts