PrepTest 103, Section 4, Question 9
James Porter (1905–1970) was the first scholar to(436 more words not shown)
Given the information in the(20 more words not shown)
- ASome of the(13 more words not shown)
- BSome of the(15 more words not shown)
- CSome of the(15 more words not shown)
- DSome of the(11 more words not shown)
- ESome of the(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Porter corrected the belief that Duncanson and Johnston were Euro-American artists. My first thought is that some artists' ancestry had been misidentified. What else does that establish?
What we’re looking for
The question asks for conclusive evidence, so we need something those facts actually prove. An answer about how the men painted would require information about their work, not just their ancestry.
Working the answers
- A
African ancestry doesn't prove that the Hudson River school's defining features came from West African artisanship. We aren't told what artistic sources influenced these particular painters.
- B
Learning who the painters were doesn't show that any of their works departed from the Hudson River style. Their ancestry and their paintings' style are different facts.
- C
These two men turn out to be African American, so identifying them doesn't establish anything about the work of Euro-American painters. No comparison with eighteenth- or nineteenth-century crafts is supplied, either.
- DCorrect
Duncanson was “of the Hudson River school,” and Johnston was “his predecessor in the movement.” Porter established that both “were of African ancestry.” Put those facts together: some Hudson River school works were made by African American painters.
- E
Again, ancestry doesn't prove a particular artistic influence. The crafts discussed earlier were linked to West African artifacts; that finding isn't automatically true of Duncanson's and Johnston's paintings.
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