Packet 6: Bonus 11
This painter focused on strands of pine trees rather than seascapes in his series of paintings set near his Florida home, like Moonlight, Tarpon Springs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this American painter who showed an early steam train in The Lackawanna Valley. This painter’s interest in Swedenborg may have influenced his hazy landscapes like Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey.
ANSWER: George Inness
[10m] Inness’s golden hour painting titled for this mountain range shows a church behind well-tended fields. Sanford Gifford painted “twilight” in this range, the setting of Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits.
ANSWER: Catskill Mountains [accept Twilight in the Catskills; prompt on Appalachian Mountains]
[10e] Inness’s emphasis on shadows and misty atmospheres led him to be labeled a tonalist painter, alongside this painter of Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket.
ANSWER: James McNeill Whistler
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | O. Playoffs 6 (Editors 6)
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15.00 | 100% | 42% | 8% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Brown | Georgetown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Bruin | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Cornell | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech B | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Indiana | Stanford A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Johns Hopkins | Georgia Tech A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| MIT | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Maryland A | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU B | Ohio State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| North Carolina | Northwestern B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Virginia Tech | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | Michigan | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford B | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | Pittsburgh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| UCF | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UCLA | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| WashU | Illinois A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Waterloo | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 24 | 15.00 | 100% | 42% | 8% |