When you study art history, you discover lots of neat stuff about artists and works of art. Here are some things that you probably won't find in most art history books. Click on "answer" next to each question to reveal the response.
	1.	What German artist was called the "Leonardo of the North?"
	2.	What 15th-century artist is credited with inventing oil painting?
	3.	Which American artist was a baseball player before becoming a painter?
	4.	How old was Mary Cassatt when she moved to France to pursue her artistic career?
	5.	Who invited Mary Cassatt to join the group of artists known as the Impressionists?
	6.	Which 19th-century artist inspired the American Congress to create the National Park System?
	7.	Who did Winslow Homer learn about painting from?
	8.	Who was the first American artist to be commissioned by the U.S. Post Office to design an abstract postage stamp?
	9.	What invention made it possible for 19th-century painters, like the Impressionists, to work outside of their studio?
	10.	What was Vincent van Gogh's favorite color?
	11.	Where did the American artist James McNeill Whistler grow up as a child?
	12.	Where did the word Impressionism come from?
	13.	What happened to the Frida Kahlo at the age of 18 that caused her to take up painting?
	14.	How old was the French artist Henri Rousseau when he first began to paint?
	15.	What did Henri Matisse do before taking up art as a career?
	16.	What was unusual about the first major exhibition of art work by Georgia O'Keeffe?
	17.	How did Paul Klee describe his drawing technique?
	18.	How old was the Diego Rivera when he first began his formal study of art?
	19.	What famous Broadway musical was inspired by the work of Marc Chagall?
	20.	What did the American artist Mary Cassatt receive from the French Government?
	21.	What American artist was once a fashion illustrator for Seventeen Glamor magazines?
	22.	How old was Pablo Picasso when he had his first one-man exhibition?
	23.	How old was Paul Cezanne when he had his first one-man exhibition?
	24.	What American artist designed wooden Toddler Toys before becoming famous as the inventor of the mobile?
	25.	What American Artist from Iowa once worked on camouflage for the US Army during World War I?
	26.	What famous French artist once worked as a common laborer on the Panama Canal?
	27.	How many paintings did Vincent van Gogh sell in his lifetime?
	28.	In addition to painting seven portraits of George Washington, what else did Charles Willson Peale make for the first American President?
	29.	What did Henri Matisse like to do for two hours each day to limber up his fingers?
	30.	Who did Frederic Auguste Bartholdi use as a source of inspiration for modelling the face of his most famous work, the "Statue of Liberty?"
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