#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In a work by John Everett Millais, young Jesus is helping out in the carpentry shop & has prophetically been cut by one of these a nail |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: This Impressionist set the scene on the Seine with "Luncheon of the Boating Party" Renoir |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Though he depicted a different river in "Rapids of the Susquehanna", Frederic Edwin Church was a big man in this "School" the Hudson River School |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Pamplona's Museo de Navarra has an 1804 portrait of the Marquis of San Adrian, a masterpiece by this Spanish painter Goya |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: Oh, her, the tale of this woman "and the Elders" is a common subject & Lorenzo Lotto's from 1517 is one of those with minimal boobage Susanna |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Her self-portrait titled "Diego & I" sold for $34.9 million at a 2021 auction, a record for her Frida Kahlo |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: Dancers were a favorite subject of this artist as in his 1879 work shown here Degas |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: In the 1930s Picasso often represented himself in his work as this mythical creature, half man & half bull a Minotaur |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Kehinde Wiley has jasmine (to represent Hawaii) & chrysanthemums (Chicago's official flower) in his portrait of this man Barack Obama |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: This New Englander showed the struggle between humans & nature in seascapes like "Fog Warning" & "The Herring Net" Homer |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Legend says Simonetta Vespucci was the model for Botticelli's "The Birth of" this goddess of love Venus |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: He painted himself after he moved to Giverny in 1883 Monet |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: Delacroix' unfinished painting of Chopin & this lover was later cut in 2; each is now displayed in a different museum George Sand |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Artist who painted the 1948 work seen here that features a Maine neighbor who suffered from polio Andrew Wyeth |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $4,800 (Daily Double): Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle was the subject of his 1872-73 work "Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2" James Abbott McNeill Whistler |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In 1905, before he took up Cubism, this Spaniard painted his friend Gertrude Stein, who wore her favorite brown velvet coat Picasso |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Augustus John, known for his portrait of this Welsh poet, introduced the poet to his future wife Caitlin Dylan Thomas |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: This British prime minister hated Graham Sutherland's 1954 portrait of him so much that his wife destroyed it Churchill |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Around 1927 this American known for his mobiles created a portrait of Josephine Baker out of wire (Alexander) Calder |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $2000: In 1797 Goya painted this duchess, his mistress, pointing to the words "solo Goya", or "Goya alone" the Duchess of Alba |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 apostles for Florence's cathedral Michelangelo |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: This British prime minister must have hated his 1954 birthday portrait by Graham Sutherland; his wife destroyed it Winston Churchill |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: English portraitist Thomas Hudson was noted for painting this "Messiah" composer George F. Handel |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: "J'accuse" Edouard Manet of painting the portrait of this French novelist, seen here Emile Zola |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: French songstress Yvette Guilbert hated this cabaret habitue's depictions of her & called him "Little Monster" Toulouse-Lautrec |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Tintoretto was in his 70s when he began painting his massive "Paradise" canvas for the doge's palace in this city Venice |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from San Francisco.) Here at the Palace Hotel you'll find Maxfield Parrish's famous mural depicting this legendary character the Pied Piper |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: He lived for awhile at the Rue des Moulins bordello, & painted its ladies of the evening in their parlor Toulouse-Lautrec |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: A pink line that resembles a scarf floats atop the abstract Robert Natkin painting named for this dancer Isadora Duncan |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: Carlo Saraceni depicted this mythological woman seen here straining at her chains Andromeda |
#3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: William Hodges' painting of the statues on this south Pacific island may be seen at England's Nat. Maritime Museum Easter Island |
#3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Sebastiano probably painted the "Judgement of" this Biblical king that was once attributed to Giorgione Solomon |
#3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece Lord Byron |
#3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1200: This woman painted the charming little girl & dog seen here Mary Cassatt |
#3976, aired 2001-12-10 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: This American known for his mobiles also created a wire portrait of Josephine Baker Alexander Calder |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: You can see Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun's 1787 portrait of this queen & her children at Versailles Marie Antoinette |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: One of Gustave Moreau's favorite subjects was this Biblical dancer who was barely veiled Salome |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: This impressionist who lived in Giverny painted a "Poppy Field in a Hollow Near Giverny" in 1885 Claude Monet |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: In 1778, during his last trip to Paris, this "Candide" author sat for a bust sculpted by Houdon Voltaire |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: Around 1915 this Italian painted an elongated, asymmetrical portrait of artist Juan Gris Amedeo Modigliani |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: The young ladies in this Frenchman's 1874 painting "The Dance Lesson" are wearing tutus Degas |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Historian Thomas Carlyle is the subject of his "Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 2": mom was "No. 1" Whistler |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: Welsh artist Augustus John is known for his portrait of this Welsh poet Dylan Thomas |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Sidney Nolan, a native of this continent created a series of paintings inspired by outlaw Ned Kelly Australia |
#3022, aired 1997-10-21 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: The man in his surreal painting "The Therapeutist" has no head but still manages to wear a hat René Magritte |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Gustave Moreau's 19th century painting of this saint & the dragon is in London's National Gallery St. George |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: His 1892 painting "Manao Tupapau" depicts a young Tahitian girl & a scary-looking spirit Paul Gauguin |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: The "Dying Slave", sculpted by this Italian master in the early 1500s, is in the Louvre Michelangelo |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Not surprisingly, his 1872 painting "Musicians of the Orchestra" shows ballet dancers in the background Edgar Degas |
#2875, aired 1997-02-14 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: Her 1936 painting "Summer Days" shows an animal skull & flowers floating above a desert landscape Georgia O'Keeffe |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: In 1808, Antonio Canova sculpted this emperor’s sister as a seminude, reclining Venus Napoleon |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: In 1874, Manet painted this artist with a similar name "Working on His Boat in Argenteuil" Monet |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: He painted ladies of the evening "at the Salon of the Rue des Moulins" in 1894 Toulouse-Lautrec |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais painted this "Hamlet" heroine afloat in a pond Ophelia |
#2621, aired 1996-01-15 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: Constantin Brancusi was noted for his stark sculptures of this kind of animal "in Space" a bird |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: His 1891 painting of a street in Tahiti is in the Toledo Museum of Art Paul Gauguin |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Thomas Solie's 1815 portrait of this orator is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection Patrick Henry |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: "The Madonna of the Magnificat" is one of many paintings of the Virgin & child by this "Birth of Venus" artist Sandro Botticelli |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: In 1930 she created a series of paintings of a jack-in-the-pulpit Georgia O' Keeffe |
#2585, aired 1995-11-24 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: In 1797 Goya painted this duchess, his mistress, pointing to the words "Solo Goya" ("Only Goya") Duchess of Alba |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $200: Around 1615 Rubens completed his painting of this biblical figure praying in the lions' den Daniel |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Myron sculpted a famous statue of an athlete hurling one of these in the 5th century B.C. a discus |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $600: In 1838 Delacroix painted portraits of Chopin & this woman with a man's name, Chopin's lover George Sand |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $800: Hans Holbein the Younger painted his first portrait of this king in 1536; it was a miniature Henry VIII |
#2208, aired 1994-03-23 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1000: His 1906 oil painting of his close friend Gertrude Stein hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Picasso |