Ask+Joan+of+Art

These are questions answered by americanart.si.edu's //Joan of Art//. Below please find a list of the questions answered in the document. On the first page of the document, you will find a table of contents directing you to the appropriate page within the document.

(//Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)//) ||
 * **Question ** || **Related Artists/Artworks ** ||
 * I'm sure that John Singer Sargent knew Claude Monet, but is it true that they had an argument over paint color? || John Singer Sargent
 * I need to know the location of the scene depicted in "Valley Pasture" by Robert Scott Duncanson. Is it in America? || Robert Scott Duncanson, //Valley Pasture// ||
 * What artists were trained at the Hudson River School, and what was it like? || Thomas Cole (//The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge//), Asher B. Durand (//Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York//), John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey (//Greenwood Lake//, //The Coast of Genoa//), Frederic Edwin Church (//Cotopaxi//, //Aurora Borealis//), Albert Bierstadt (//Gates of the Yosemite//), Thomas Moran (//The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872)//) ||
 * What American artist had clients sit for their portraits in an Irish jail, where he was briefly held for non-payment of debts? || Gilbert Stuart (//John Adams//), Ralph Earl (//Mrs. Richard Alsop//), ||
 * Is there more than one "Vaquero" sculpture by Luis Jimenez? Is it true that this sculpture was considered "too violent" and rejected by the venue that had commissioned it? || Luis Jimenez, //Vaquero// ||
 * Did the subject matter of sculpture by Edmonia Lewis have anything to do with her ethnic background? || Edmonia Lewis, //The Death of Cleopatra// ||
 * What can you tell me about the colors, paints and techniques used by Winlsow Homer in his watercolor paintings? || Winslow Homer ||
 * I’m interested in artwork by William H. Johnson that depicts children as a representation of issues and images from Johnson’s larger African American community. || William H. Johnson (for an example where children are portrayed, //Going to Church)// ||