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Which London gallery did Rothko give nine Seagram murals to?
Answer: Tate Gallery
Why: His gift came with a condition: the murals must hang together in a room of their own.
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Which country's lost republic do Motherwell's Elegies mourn?
Answer: Spain
Why: Motherwell kept adding to the series for four decades, reaching more than 100 paintings.
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Who was the only woman in Life's 1951 'Irascibles' photo?
Answer: Hedda Sterne
Why: All 15 painters in the photo had signed a 1950 protest against the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition jury.
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What magazine shot models in front of Pollock paintings in 1951?
Answer: Vogue
Why: Cecil Beaton photographed the ball gowns against Pollock's show at New York's Betty Parsons Gallery.
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How did Harvard bring back the colors of Rothko's faded murals?
Answer: Projected light
Why: Lithol red, the light-sensitive pigment behind the murals' deep crimson, is what faded.
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Who became Jackson Pollock's art teacher in New York in 1930?
Answer: Thomas Hart Benton
Why: Benton was a leading Regionalist, known for realist scenes of rural American life.