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James Fraser The End of the Trail Test
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- Which boyhood experience did James Earle Fraser acknowledge had significantly influenced his art career?
a. Encounters with pioneers, hunters and fur trappers
b. Befriending the Plains Natives
c. Watching a young man carve chalkstone into different forms
- In what city did Fraser begin his art studies?
a. Mitchell, South Dakota
b. Minneapolis, Minnesota
c. Chicago, Illinois
- What did Fraser take with him to Paris in 1898 for the American Artists' Association exhibition?
a. A small, plaster sculpture of a horse
c. A small, bronze sculpture of The End of the Trail
b. The Saint-Gaudens Medal
- Which family friend encouraged Fraser's father to allow his young son to travel to Paris, France and continue his art studies?
a. Sir William Van Horn
b. John D. Rockefeller
c. Andrew Carnegie
- While studying in Paris, Fraser worked in the studio of which famous sculptor?
a. Michelangelo
b. Saint-Gaudens
c. Rodin
- Which Italian Renaissance master artist did Fraser hold the highest admiration for?
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Raphael
c. Michelangelo
- What was the first commissioned work completed by Fraser?
a. The End of the Trail
b. Buffalo Nickel
c. Saint-Gaudens Medal
- In a later version of the The End of the Trail sculpture, Fraser replaced the buffalo shield with what item?
a. spear
b. medicine bag
c. buffalo hide robe
- The monumental sculpture of The End of the Trail was created for which event in 1915?
a. World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois
b. Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York
c. Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California
- What prevented Fraser from casting his plaster sculpture of The End of the Trail in bronze?
a. Residents of Tulare County moved the piece to Mooney Grove Park
b. The beginning of World War I made bronze a scarce resource
c. The sculpture was purchased by railroad tycoon Sir William Van Horn
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