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WorksheetsCornish Artists
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 46mins
Who is this painting by?
Pablo Picasso
Peter Lanyon
Ben Nicholson
Mrs Dale
Where inspired this painting?
St Ives
Mousehole
Porthleven
Penzance
What St Just artist writes in their pictures and sticks in things from where they were made?
Claude Monet
Ms Green
Samuel Lamorna Birch
Kurt Jackson
Where inspired this painting?
Longships Lighthouse
Godrevy Lighthouse
Wolf rock Lighthouse
St Anthony's Lighthouse
What Penwith painter had a serious disability but overcame it to become (quite) famous?
Richard Long
Bryan Pearce
Henry Moore
Brian Adams
Where inspired this painting?
St Ives
St Just
St Bernard
St Michael's Mount
Which Russian escaped the German Nazis invading France during WW2 to become a sculptor in St Ives?
Piet Mondrian
Wassily Kandinsky
Marc Chagall
Naum Gabo
What St Ives painter spent her summers in Penwith and her winters in Scotland?
Margaret Mellis
Barbara Hepworth
Wilhelmina Barnes Graham
Lynne Green
What fisherman (originally) from Penzance took up painting as a hobby and became a famous painter instead?
Stanhope Forbes
Alfred Wallis
Norman Garstin
Ben Nicholson
Where inspired this painting?
Falmouth harbour
St Ives harbour
Mounts Bay
Sennen
Who painted this painting ('The Rain it Raineth Every Day')?
Norman Garstin
Marjorie Frances Bruford
Frank Bramley
Elizabeth Forbes
Where inspired this painting?
St Ives harbour
King Charles pier, Falmouth
Camborne
Penzance Prom
What Penwith painter liked one bit of Cornwall so much he changed his name to it?
Louise St Euny
Zennor Trevaskis
Lamorna Birch
Mary Marazion
What Newlyn artist became the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in 1936?
Laura Knight
Gertrude Harvey
Eleanor Hughes
Ruth Simpson
What artist went to the same school as Mr Cross (but not at the same time) and set up the Newlyn School of Art in 1899?
Blandford Fletcher
Doris "Dod" Shaw
Stanhope Forbes
Henry Tate
Where inspired this painting?
Causeway Head
Abbey Slip
Jubilee Pool
South Pier Public Toilet
What Newlyn and Lamorna school artist was the only one actually from Penzance?
Laura Knight
Henry Scott Tuke
Ayerst Ingram
Harold Harvey
Where inspired this painting?
Tywardreath Marsh
Nansmellyn Marsh
Marazion Marsh
Bude Marsh
Which influential Hong Kong born potter established the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 1920?
David Leach
Bernard Leach
Hamada Shoji
Ogata Kenzan
What famous and influential Penwith sculptor has two museums named after her?
Sharon Tate
Tallulah Tremenheere
Millie Dow
Barbara Hepworth
From Newlyn himself - who made the Newlyn Fisherman Memorial?
Richard Austin
Tom Leaper
Tim Shaw
James Turrell
What abstract artist lived in Zennor and started out his career making wood-block prints on silk as a textiles designer?
Henri Matisse
Patrick Heron
Roger Hilton
Terry Frost
What contemporary black British artist living in Cornwall made the painting 'From Trenchtown to Porthtowan'?
Chris Ofili
Denzil Forrester
Frank Bowling
Lubaina Himid
