One of our newest puzzles The Heist by Elijah Haswell is a chaotic snapshot of a museum filled with pranks and high jinks as well as a heaping of references to famous artworks.
Can you spot them all?
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1. Alexandros of Antioch, Venus de Milo, 150 BCE, Louvre Museum.
2. Conrad Meit, Duke of Savoy, c. 1523, Bode Museum.
3. Pablo Picasso, Bust of a Woman, 1944, Tate Modern.
4. Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889, Museum of Modern Art.
5. Johannes Vermeer, Girl With a Pearl Earring, 1665, Mauritshuis Museum.
6. Leonardo da Vinci, Lady with an Ermine, c. 1489, Czartoryski Museum.
7. Sharaku, Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei, 1794, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
8. M.C. Escher, Two Birds No. 18, 1938.
9. Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930, Kunsthaus Zurich.
10. Claude Monet, Water Lillies, 1914-26, Museum of Modern Art.
11. Thutmose, Nefertiti Bust, 1345 BCE, Neues Museum.
12. Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Can, 1962, Museum of Modern Art.
13. Keith Haring, Untitled (Dance), 1987.
14. Claude Monet, Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art.
15. Grant Wood, American Gothic, 1930, Art Institute of Chicago.
16. René Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964.
17. Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1508-12, Sistine Chapel.
18. Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of a Polish Woman, 1919, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
19. Unknown, Crescent Necklace, 600 CE, Altes Museum.
20. Unknown, Askos in the Form of a Duck, c. 300 BCE, British Museum.
21. Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon, 1886-88, Art Institute of Chicago.
22. Caravaggio, Medusa, 1595-98, Uffizi Museum.
23. Vincent van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles, 1888, Van Gogh Museum.
24. René Magritte, The Treachery of Images, 1929, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
25. Jean-Michel Basquiat, With Strings Two, 1983, The Broad.
26. Unknown, Cave Paintings, Prehistoric, Lascaux Cave.
27. Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, A Friend in Need, 1903.
28. Gustav Klimt, The Kiss, 1909, Austrian Gallery Belvedere.
29. Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of Football Player, 1915, Art Institute of Chicago.
30. Ellsworth Kelly, Red Yellow Blue White and Black, 1953, Art Institute of Chicago.
31. Unknown, Stamnos, 450 BCE, Art Institute of Chicago.
32. Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1910, Munch Museum.
33. Georgia O’Keefe, Sky Above Clouds IV, 1965, Art Institute of Chicago.
34. Unknown, Wine Jar With Fish, 1368, Brooklyn Museum.
35. Unknown, Vase, c. 1425, Metropolitan Museum of Art
36. Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
37. Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Art Institute of Chicago.
38. Unknown, Sallet (Barbute), c. 1450, Art Institute of Chicago.
39. Sandro Boticelli, Birth of Venus, 1486, Uffizi Museum.
40. Frida Kahlo, Untitled (Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace), 1940, Harry Ransom Center.
41. Edgar Degas, Dancers at the Barre, c. 1900, The Phillips Collection.
42. Elijah Haswell, Portrait of the Artist, 2016.
43. Andy Warhol, Velvet Underground & Nico, 1967.
44. Hokusai, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, 1831, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
45. Henri Matisse, The Parakeet and The Mermaid, 1952, Museum of Modern Art.
46. Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503, Louvre Museum.
47. Shitao, Bamboo in Wind and Rain, c. 1694, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
48. Piero della Francesca, Portrait of the Duke of Urbino, 1467-72, Uffizi Museum.
49. Keith Haring, Barking Dog, 1990.
50. Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889, Courtauld Gallery.
51. Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog (Blue), 1994, The Broad.
What great fun to do this puzzle and figure out the artworks!! Your legend helped us identify the ones that we were too tricky for us (such as “Portrait of the Artist” by Elijah Haswell!!). It was interesting to provide in the legend the locations where the artworks are found and also the dates. You gave us a lovely puzzle image—-that was a bit like “Where’s Waldo?”; and then you added on a nice adventure into the art world. Thank you Artifact.
Barbara and Larry Hauser