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Cornish Artists

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is this painting by?

a)

Pablo Picasso

b)

Peter Lanyon

c)

Ben Nicholson

d)

Mrs Dale

2.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

St Ives

b)

Mousehole

c)

Porthleven

d)

Penzance

3.

What St Just artist writes in their pictures and sticks in things from where they were made?

a)

Claude Monet

b)

Ms Green

c)

Samuel Lamorna Birch

d)

Kurt Jackson

4.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

Longships Lighthouse

b)

Godrevy Lighthouse

c)

Wolf rock Lighthouse

d)

St Anthony's Lighthouse

5.

What Penwith painter had a serious disability but overcame it to become (quite) famous?

a)

Richard Long

b)

Bryan Pearce

c)

Henry Moore

d)

Brian Adams

6.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

St Ives

b)

St Just

c)

St Bernard

d)

St Michael's Mount

7.

Which Russian escaped the German Nazis invading France during WW2 to become a sculptor in St Ives?

a)

Piet Mondrian

b)

Wassily Kandinsky

c)

Marc Chagall

d)

Naum Gabo

8.

What St Ives painter spent her summers in Penwith and her winters in Scotland?

a)

Margaret Mellis

b)

Barbara Hepworth

c)

Wilhelmina Barnes Graham

d)

Lynne Green

9.

What fisherman (originally) from Penzance took up painting as a hobby and became a famous painter instead?

a)

Stanhope Forbes

b)

Alfred Wallis

c)

Norman Garstin

d)

Ben Nicholson

10.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

Falmouth harbour

b)

St Ives harbour

c)

Mounts Bay

d)

Sennen

11.

Who painted this painting ('The Rain it Raineth Every Day')?

a)

Norman Garstin

b)

Marjorie Frances Bruford

c)

Frank Bramley

d)

Elizabeth Forbes

12.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

St Ives harbour

b)

King Charles pier, Falmouth

c)

Camborne

d)

Penzance Prom

13.

What Penwith painter liked one bit of Cornwall so much he changed his name to it?

a)

Louise St Euny

b)

Zennor Trevaskis

c)

Lamorna Birch

d)

Mary Marazion

14.

What Newlyn artist became the first woman elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in 1936?

a)

Laura Knight

b)

Gertrude Harvey

c)

Eleanor Hughes

d)

Ruth Simpson

15.

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?

a)

Blandford Fletcher

b)

Doris "Dod" Shaw

c)

Stanhope Forbes

d)

Henry Tate

16.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

Causeway Head

b)

Abbey Slip

c)

Jubilee Pool

d)

South Pier Public Toilet

17.

What Newlyn and Lamorna school artist was the only one actually from Penzance?

a)

Laura Knight

b)

Henry Scott Tuke

c)

Ayerst Ingram

d)

Harold Harvey

18.

Where inspired this painting?

a)

Tywardreath Marsh

b)

Nansmellyn Marsh

c)

Marazion Marsh

d)

Bude Marsh

19.

Which influential Hong Kong born potter established the Leach Pottery in St Ives in 1920?

a)

David Leach

b)

Bernard Leach

c)

Hamada Shoji

d)

Ogata Kenzan

20.

What famous and influential Penwith sculptor has two museums named after her?

a)

Sharon Tate

b)

Tallulah Tremenheere

c)

Millie Dow

d)

Barbara Hepworth

21.

From Newlyn himself - who made the Newlyn Fisherman Memorial?

a)

Richard Austin

b)

Tom Leaper

c)

Tim Shaw

d)

James Turrell

22.

What abstract artist lived in Zennor and started out his career making wood-block prints on silk as a textiles designer?

a)

Henri Matisse

b)

Patrick Heron

c)

Roger Hilton

d)

Terry Frost

23.

What contemporary black British artist living in Cornwall made the painting 'From Trenchtown to Porthtowan'?

a)

Chris Ofili

b)

Denzil Forrester

c)

Frank Bowling

d)

Lubaina Himid