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Gustave Courbet (“coor-BAY”) painted this woman in La belle irlandaise. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this artists’ model. She posed in white dresses in two paintings by another artist: one in which she holds a fan and looks at herself in a mirror, and another in which she stands on a wolfskin rug.
ANSWER: Joanna Hiffernan [prompt on Jo]
[10e] Hiffernan regularly modeled for this artist of the Symphony in White paintings, her long-term romantic partner. This artist is known for his many nocturnes and arrangements, including one in “grey and black” depicting his mother.
ANSWER: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
[10h] Whistler sued John Ruskin for libel after Ruskin compared Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket to “flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face,” and recounted the trial in this book. This book also contains Whistler’s lecture “Ten O’Clock.”
ANSWER: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
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TournamentExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 ACF NationalsYes2214.55100%46%0%