There is a major retrospective of Joseph Mallord Turner’s works on display at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and it makes me wonder out loud which gallery originally received the majority of paintings that Turner famously bequeathed.
Got an answer to share? Send it to arhudson@stthomas.edu
Speaking of answers, last week I asked which member of the executive branch was the first American to receive the Nobel Peach Prize. The answer is Theodore Roosevelt for helping to negotiate the end of the Russo-Japanese war. Other executive branch Nobel Peace Prize winners were Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter along with Al Gore.
The campus presidential historians who knew the answer are
Roderick Teh
Bill Landherr
Thanks for playing along!