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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paintings 21-70.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Wyeth increasingly experimented with and re-conceptualized _________________.
(a) His use of light.
(b) The use of oils.
(c) Pencil sketches.
(d) Portraits.

2. What does "Spring Beauty" signify for Wyeth's work?
(a) He worked on the same vista in each season.
(b) He incorporated people into his paintings.
(c) He moves closer to realism.
(d) He began to use watercolors.

3. What was the subject of "Marsh Hawk" in 1964?
(a) Spring planting.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Hay wagons.
(d) Baling hay.

4. Wyeth's style eschewed _____________.
(a) Technique.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Realism.

5. "Storm at Sea" was painted in 1965 after Wyeth was mesmerized by __________________.
(a) Seagulls.
(b) A whaling ship.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A hurricane.

Short Answer Questions

1. The door in "Blue Door" in 1952 is at whose home?

2. What did Wyeth do while painting "Blackberry Branch" in 1943?

3. What did the cooling shed in the painting, "Cooling Shed," remind Wyeth of?

4. Who did Wyeth know who was buried in the cemetery where the grave digger was doing his work?

5. In "Dam Breast" painted in 1970, Wyeth was drawn in by a _______________________.

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