Name that railway station! The great British art quiz

Leicester Museums set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some fiendish questions along the way

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by Leicester Museums, which was established in the 1840s and has a rich and varied collection ranging from a meteorite that is billions of years old to an internationally renowned German expressionist art collection.

You can see art from Leicester Museums on Art UK here. Find out more on the website here.

  1. Rote Frau, 1912, Franz Marc (1880–1916)

    Franz Marc was a co-founder of which artists’ group in Munich in 1911-12?

    1. Die Brücke

    2. Blaue Reiter

    3. Neue Kunstler Vereiningung (NKV)

    4. Bauhaus

  2. Image: The Railway Station, 1863, William Powell Frith (1819–1909)

    William Powell Frith’s The Railway Station depicts a platform scene at which station?

    1. Manchester Piccadilly

    2. London Kings Cross

    3. Edinburgh Waverley

    4. London Paddington

  3. Collection name - Leicester Museums
Perseus, on Pegasus, Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda, c.1896, Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)

    Whose head is being carried by Perseus in this painting?

    1. Medusa

    2. Athena

    3. Circe

    4. Arachne

  4. Leicester New Walk Museum, Leicester, Leicestershire<br>Collection name - Leicester Museums
‘Cambodian Head’, 17th century, unknown artist

    From which century does this sculpture date?

    1. 16th century

    2. 17th century

    3. 18th century

    4. 19th century

  5. Collection name - Leicester Museums ‘Nostalgic Landscape’, 1923–1938, Paul Nash (1889–1946)

    This Nostalgic Landscape was painted by which surrealist artist?

    1. Salvador Dalí

    2. Frida Kahlo

    3. Paul Nash

    4. Eileen Agar

  6. Collection name - Leicester Museums 'A Neapolitan Boy’, Sophie Anderson (1823-1903)

    Which volcano can be seen in the distance in this painting?

    1. Mount Etna

    2. Mount Vesuvius

    3. Mount Aso

    4. Krakatoa

  7. Collection name - Leicester Museums
‘Mrs Mary Stanion’c.1900, Joseph Crosland McClure (1871–1940),

    What material is this bust made from?

    1. Carrara marble

    2. Cumberland stone

    3. Portland stone

    4. Istrian stone

  8. Leicester New Walk Museum, Leicester, Leicestershire<br>Collection name - Leicester Museums
‘Study for a Sepulchral Monument’ 1913, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915),

    In which museum or gallery collection can you find the full-size version of this Study for a Sepulchral Moment by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska?

    1. The National Gallery

    2. The Louvre

    3. Tate

    4. The Uffizi Gallery

Solutions

1:B - The Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) artists' group was founded by Marc with Wassily Kandinsky. Their first exhibition was in December 1911 and the following year their famous Almanac of art essays was published. Image: Rote Frau, 1912, Franz Marc (1880–1916). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service, 2:D - This is one of several smaller versions by Frith of a larger painting now in the collection of the Royal Holloway College. Frith modelled some of the characters in the scene on his family (group to the left), fellow artists (the police officers are John Bretty and Benjamin Robert Haydon) and other associates. The bearded man in fur coat was a Venetian refugee nobleman who had taught Frith’s daughters. Image: The Railway Station, 1863, William Powell Frith (1819–1909). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service, 3:A - The mythical Perseus rides the winged horse Pegasus, hastening to the rescue of Andromeda, who is in peril from the Kraken, a terrible sea-monster. Perseus is carrying the head of the slain Medusa, with hair of snakes, whose gaze even after death would turn the beholder to stone. Image: Perseus, on Pegasus, Hastening to the Rescue of Andromeda, c.1896, Frederic Leighton (1830–1896). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service , 4:B - This wooden sculpture, Cambodian Head, dates from some time in the 17th century and little is known about who created it or when. It was acquired by the Museum in 1949. Image: Cambodian Head, 17th century, unknown artist. Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service , 5:C - Paul Nash was a British surrealist painter and official war artist in both world wars, as well as a photographer, writer and designer of applied art. He was among the most important landscape artists of the first half of the 20th century and played a key role in the development of modernism in English art. Image: Nostalgic Landscape, 1923–1938, Paul Nash (1889–1946). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service , 6:B - Sophie Anderson was a Victorian artist who lived and worked between France, the US, Italy and England. She was among the first living female artists to have artworks purchased by British public museums, but today her work is barely known. She specialised in genre paintings of children and women, typically in rural settings. Image: A Neapolitan Boy, Sophie Anderson (1823-1903). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service , 7:A - This bust was carved by the sculptor from a leftover piece of carrara marble. McClure worked in Leicester between c.1905 and 1910, as a tutor at the Leicester School of Art. One of his most important sculptural commissions is a monument in the centre of the city, the Leicestershire Boer War Memorial, unveiled on 1 July 1909 on Leicester Town Hall Square. Image: Mrs Mary Stanion, c.1900, Joseph Crosland McClure (1871–1940). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service , 8:C - This is a maquette, or a preliminary model, for a stone version of the sculpture, also made in 1913, which is now in the Tate collection. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in action during the first world war. Although his work was appreciated by some people, particularly avant-garde artists, it was only later that he came to be recognised as one of the outstanding sculptors of his generation. Image: Study for a Sepulchral Monument, 1913, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915). Credit: Leicester Arts and Museums Service

Scores

  1. 8 and above.

    A brush with greatness

  2. 7 and above.

    Close to perfection!

  3. 6 and above.

    Fine job

  4. 5 and above.

    More right than wrong

  5. 4 and above.

    Halfway there

  6. 3 and above.

    Could be worse

  7. 2 and above.

    Work to be done

  8. 0 and above.

    Blank slate

  9. 1 and above.

    Better get brushing up

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