Today in 1964, the popular game show Jeopardy premiered on television, and it is still popular twenty-seven years later.The trick to winning on Jeopardy is to come up with the correct question to an answer.
I'll Take Women Artists for 500
Today in 1964, the popular game show Jeopardy premiered on television, and it is still popular twenty-seven years later.The trick to winning on Jeopardy is to come up with the correct question to an answer.
Today on SAAM Jeopardy, in honor of Women's History Month, the category is "Women artists featured in our Treasures to Go traveling exhibitions." Figure out the right questions for these answers and send them in to 1001days@si.edu by April 15, 2001. If your questions are correct, we will enter your name in a prize drawing!
Women Artists 100
The only American to exhibit with the French impressionists.
Women Artists 200
A successful Abstract Expressionist in her own right, she was married to Jackson Pollock.
Women Artists 300
One of the first American artists to live in a skyscraper when she had an apartment on the thirtieth floor of the Shelton Hotel in New York City in the mid-1920s, which she depicted in some of the earlier paintings of her long career.
Women Artists 400
African masks and fetishes provided this African American artist with powerful symbols of her ancestral past, which she discovered while studying in France.
Women Artists 500
An expatriate who spent most of her life in France, this artist was very religious and cared deeply about her models, helping them and their families in any way she could.
Remember to phrase your answer in the form of a question and good luck! The prize winner of SAAM Jeopardy will be notified by email.
Pictured: Mary Cassatt, 1844 USA–1926 France, The Caress, 1902, oil on canvas, 32 7/8 x 27 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.