SparkNotes: Georgia O'Keeffe: Review Test

1. Which gallery exhibited Georgia’s first major show?

(A) An American Place

(B) The Downtown Gallery

(C) Stieglitz Gallery

(D) 291

2. Where did Georgia grow up?

(A) New Jersey

(B) Texas

(C) New Mexico

(D) Wisconsin

3. Who was her influential tutor at Chatham Episcopal Institute?

(A) Alfred Stieglitz

(B) Anita Pollitzer

(C) Mrs. Willis

(D) Mr. Hamilton

4. What was the name of the first house Georgia purchased in 1940?

(A) Rancho de los Burros

(B) Rancho de los Locos

(C) Abiquiu

(D) The Faraway

5. During what decade did O’Keeffe produce most of her flower artwork?

(A) 1900s

(B) 1920s

(D) 1960s

6. During which decade did O’Keeffe paint her largest painting?

(A) 1920s

(B) 1930s

(D) 1960s

7. Which artist, famous for painting in abstraction, was an influence for O’Keeffe?

(A) Alon Bement

(B) Alfred Stieglitz

(C) Anita Pollitzer

(D) Wassily Kandinsky

8. Who was responsible for aiding Georgia during the last years of her life?

(A) Jean Toomer

(B) Alfred Stieglitz

(C) Mrs. Willis

(D) Juan Hamilton

9. Why did Georgia go to Texas in 1912?

(A) To teach

(B) To paint

(C) To work on ranches

(D) To drill for oil

10. What did Georgia find in the desert that was shaped like the mountain tops?

(A) A tree

(B) A flower

(C) A pelvic bone

(D) A skull

11. What kind of skull did Georgia paint with the colors red, white, and blue?

(A) Snake skull

(B) Dog skull

(C) Cat skull

(D) Cow skull

12. Who influenced O’Keeffe to study at Columbia Teachers College?

(A) Alon Beignet

(B) Alan MacMahon

(C) George Stieglitz

(D) Alon Bement

13. Who is Georgia named after?

(A) Her grandmother

(B) Her father

(C) Her grandfather

(D) Her great grandfather

14. Why did the O’Keeffes leave Sun Prairie?

(A) Fear that Francis would develop tuberculosis, like his brothers did

(B) A desire to move to another state

(C) Georgia insisted on moving

(D) A desire to move closer to other relatives

15. What did Georgia call the "Black Place"?

(A) Her home in Virginia

(B) Amarillo, Texas

(C) Hills north of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

(D) Palo Duro Canyon

16. What position did Georgia hold at the Chatham Episcopal Institute?

(A) Art editor of the newspaper

(B) Track athlete

(C) Art editor of the yearbook

(D) President of the student council

17. Why did Georgia stop working as a commercial artist?

(A) She was fired

(B) She found a better job

(C) She got the measles

(D) Her aunts would not let her live with them anymore

18. Who brought Georgia’s work to Alfred Stieglitz for the first time in 1916?

(A) Mrs. Willis

(B) Ida O’Keeffe

(C) Anita O’Keeffe

(D) Anita Pollitzer

19. What did O’Keeffe suffer from as she aged?

(A) Loss of eyesight

(B) Arthritis

(C) Heart disease

(D) Deafness

20. What artistic techniques and approaches did Georgia utilize?

(A) Abstraction and symbolism

(B) Pointillism

(C) Impressionism

(D) Cubism and pop art

21. Where did Georgia’s family move in 1903?

(A) Williamsburg, Virginia

(B) Charlottesville, Virginia

(C) Amarillo, Texas

(D) Taos, New Mexico

22. Which New Mexican city was a mecca for artists in the early twentieth century?

(A) Los Alamos

(B) Las Cruces

(C) Taos

(D) Abiquiu

23. What inspired O’Keeffe to execute her famous charcoal drawings in 1915?

(A) A meeting with Stieglitz

(B) Juan Hamilton

(C) Anita Pollitzer

(D) Arthur MacMahon’s visit

24. Who taught Georgia at the Art Institute?

(A) Chase

(B) Willis

(C) Stieglitz

(D) Vanderpool

25. What did Georgia’s mother die of?

(A) Cancer

(B) Heart disease

(C) Old age

(D) Tuberculosis

26. How many photographs did Stieglitz make of Georgia between 1918 and 1937?

(A) 300

(B) 500

(C) 1,000

(D) 5,000

27. Which two artists were Georgia’s contemporaries?

(A) Renoir and Monet

(B) Goya and Delecroix

(C) Smith and Welberton

(D) Hartley and Dove

28. Whose photography partially inspired O’Keeffe’s flowers?

(A) Alfred Stieglitz

(B) Anita Pollitzer

(C) Paul Strand

(D) Wassily Kandinsky

29. What did Georgia see an integral part of creating her art?

(A) Portraying beauty

(B) Ensuring the correct interpretation by the public

(C) Being innovative and avant-garde

(D) Never painting anything over again

30. What was the technique of Paul Strand’s photography

(A) Realism

(B) Abstraction

(C) Precisionism

(D) Dynamics

31. What experience led to the creation of Black Abstraction?

(A) Drowning in Lake George

(B) Being photographed by Stieglitz

(C) Looking straight at the sun

(D) A surgical operation

32. Which of the following did not frequent the artist colonies in New Mexico?

(A) Maurice Sterne

(B) D.H. Lawrence

(C) Mabel Dodge Luhan

(D) Alfred Stieglitz

33. What did Georgia call New Mexico?

(A) The Infinite Space

(B) The Faraway

(C) The Black Earth

(D) The Land of Enchantment

34. What major issues did Georgia confront in her paintings during the 1930s?

(A) Sex and capitalism

(B) Life and death

(C) Profits and industrialism

(D) War and justice

35. Which painting most clearly exhibited these issues?

(A) The Canyon

(B) Black Cross, New Mexico

(C) Sky of Clouds

(D) A Day with Juan

36. Which church did Georgia paint many times?

(A) St. Patrick’s Cathedral

(B) Ranchos Church

(C) The Ghost Ranch Chapel

(D) Sun Prairie Baptist Church

37. Who was the owner of Ghost Ranch when Georgia arrived there in 1934?

(A) Mabel Luhan

(B) Jean Toomer

(C) Arthur Pack

(D) Dorothy Norman

38. With whom did Stieglitz have a relationship while being married to Georgia?

(A) Anna Pollitzer

(B) Marjorie Toomer

(C) Dorothy Norman

(D) Maria Chabot

39. When did Georgia have a nervous breakdown?

(A) 1920s

(B) 1930s

(D) 1960s

40. Where did Georgia go to recover from her breakdown?

(A) France

(B) Bermuda

(C) St. Thomas

(D) Mexico

41. What mountain range was near Ghost ranch?

(A) Appalachian

(B) Dark Hills

(C) Jemez

(D) Burros

42. What was the name for the mesa in this range, which Georgia could see from her Ghost Ranch house?

(A) Burros

(B) Taos

(C) Pendernal

(D) Los Alamos

43. Which institution honored Georgia with an honorary degree in 1942?

(A) Columbia University

(B) University of Chicago

(C) University of Wisconsin

(D) Texas University

44. Who honored Georgia as one of the twelve most outstanding women of the previous fifty years in 1939?

(A) The Olympic Committee

(B) The Committee of the World’s Fair

(C) The President of the United States

(D) Life magazine

45. Where did Maria Chabot and Georgia go hiking?

(A) To Lake George

(B) To the "Black Place"

(C) To the "Hot Place"

(D) To the "Red Place"

46. From whom did Georgia buy her Abiquiu residence?

(A) The Catholic church

(B) Arthur Pack

(C) Manel Luhan

(D) Anita Pollitzer

47. Who had the responsibility of executing Stieglitz’s will?

(A) Juan Hamilton

(B) Emmeline Stieglitz

(C) Georgia O’Keeffe

(D) Paul Strand

48. What did Juan Hamilton attempt to teach Georgia?

(A) Dance

(B) Music

(C) Pottery

(D) Sewing

49. What is the setting for the painting A Day with Juan?

(A) Texas

(B) New Mexico

(C) Washington, D.C.

(D) New York City

50. Where were Georgia’s ashes scattered?

(A) Amarillo

(B) New York

(C) Canyon

(D) Ghost Ranch