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Trash the Art Museum

"It's a tragedy, Detective, a tragedy. Vandalism like this. Sacking and pillaging I can understand, but such wanton destruction! Right, here are the crime scene photos from the museum. See what you can make out. And we're not going to let the people who did this get away."

Can you crack the Art Squad's biggest case in decades? Identify the works of art as best you can. Tell us as much as you can: simply naming the style will earn points, but identifying the artist is even better, and you're in line for a promotion if you can provide enough titles.

  1. Vincent Van Gogh, "Portrait of Patience Escalier", Dutch Modern
  2. Joan Miro, "Ciphers and Constellations in Love with a Woman", Modern
  3. Leonardo da Vinci, "Mona Lisa", Renaissance
  4. Louise Bourgeois, "Eyes" (a sketch), American Contemporary
  5. Walker Evans, "Subway Portrait", American, Social Realist
  6. Botticelli, "Birth of Venus", Italian Renaissance
  7. Edward Hopper, "Morning in a City", American Modern, social realist
  8. Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory", Surrealist, Modern, Spanish

  1. Piet Mondrian, "Composition with Blue, Red, and Yellow", Dutch Modern, De Stijl
  2. El Greco, "The Tears of St Peter", Southern Renaissance, Spanish
  3. Edvard Munch, "The Scream", Modern, Norwegian
  4. Renoir, "Boating on the Seine", French Impressionist
  5. Piet Mondrian, "Molen (Mill in Sunlight)", Dutch Modern, early Piet Mondrian
  6. Fra Angelico, "St Francis and a Bishop Saint, St John the Baptist and St Dominic", Medieval religious art

  1. Andrew Wyeth, "Christina's World", American Modern
  2. Ansel Adams, "Moon and Half Dome", American, f22 school
  3. L.S. Lowry, "The Lake", British, Modern, Manchester.
  4. Michelangelo, "The Sistine Chapel", Renaissance, Italian
  5. Vermeer, "A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal", Dutch, Renaissance
  6. Gustave Cailebotte, "The Place de l'Europe on a Rainy Day", Early Impressionist
  7. Stieglitz, "Steerage", American, romantic photography

  1. Paul Gauguin, "Two Tahitian Women", French Modern
  2. Grant Wood, "Death on the Ridge Road", American Modern
  3. Van Gogh, "Sunflowers", Dutch, Modern
  4. Emil Nolde, "The Last Supper", Modern
  5. Mark Rothko, "Red on Maroon", Mid-20th C Modern
  6. Vermeer, "Girl with the Pearl Earring", Dutch
  7. Constable, "The Hay Wain", English
  8. Thomas Benton, "City Building", American, 1930, WPA

  1. Alberto Bierstadt, "The Rocky Mountains", American or German Romantic, 19th C.
  2. Monet, "Haystacks, Snow Effect", French Impressionist
  3. unknown, "The Unicorn in Captivity", South Netherlandish, Medieval.
  4. Roy Lichtenstein, "Stepping Out", Pop Art
  5. Rene Magritte, "The Human Condition", Surrealist
  6. Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" or "The Artist's Mother", 19th C realist
  7. Goya, "The Shootings of May 3d, 1808", Early 19th C
  8. Jan Steen, "The Dissolute Household", Dutch

  1. Rembrandt, "The Night Watch", Dutch
  2. Nevinson, "The Soul of the Soulless City (New York - An Abstraction)", Modern, Cubist
  3. Gallen-Kalella, "The Swan of Turonella", Finnish
  4. John Singleton Copley, "Watson and the Shark", American
  5. Charles Demuth, "I Saw the Figure Five in Gold", Modern
  6. Wassily Kandinsky, "Improvisation", Early modern
  7. Thomas Eakins, "The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), American 19th century, realist.