I Want You to Play the American Art Virtual Scavenger Hunt Game!

Listed below are five questions drawn from our online exhibitions. The questions are linked to the virtual presentations that contain the answers. If you can answer them correctly, you could win a prize!

Send us your answers, along with your name and address, in an email to 1001days@nmaa.si.edu.

Good luck and let the hunt begin!

1. In what year and at what museum was Edward Hopper's first retrospective held?

2. What was the name of the shoe store chain whose sign inspired Robert Cottingham to create his piece Women—Girls?

3. Who did Abbott Thayer depict as a winged being in the first of his many angel portraits?

4. After sculptor Edmonia Lewis exhibited her masterpiece The Death of Cleopatra in the 1870s, the sculpture was put in storage and all records of its location were lost. Where did this sculpture resurface in the 1980s?

5. Who did artist James Montgomery Flagg use as a model for Uncle Sam in his famous war poster, I Want You for U.S. Army?

We will accept scavenger hunt answers through April 1, 2000. All correct entries received by that date will be entered in our prize drawing. The winner will be notified by email.

Pictured: James Montgomery Flagg (1877–1960), I Want You for U.S. Army,1917, chromolithograph on paper, 39 1/2 x 29 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Barry and Melissa Vilkin.