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Background: We are a family of geocachers http://www.geocaching.com, which involves looking for small containers located at various locations all over the country (and world). The containers are tracked using GPS coordinates, so they can be found within a precision of about 20 feet. Typically, the geocaches coordinates are given in standard format (degrees, minutes, seconds):

N 41° 123.45
W 071° 987.65 (I just made these up)

You plug that into your GPS or smart phone app, then go and find it. Woohoo!

Now the fun part. Often the discovery of the coordinates involves solving a puzzle. Some are simple and some are mind-blowingly difficult (relying on ciphers and conversions and other strangeness). The puzzle we are trying to solve involves identifying artists from small samples of famous paintings. We know the last digit of the year the artist died is one the digits in the coordinates.

Here are the paintings for the north coordinates:



and here are the paintings for the west coordinates:



We've identified most of these already using Google image search. The missing artists are for North 8, 12, 15 and 16:






and West 11, 17 and 19:





If you want to show your true artistic skill and identify all of them, feel free. We only need these seven to solve the puzzle.

Have fun, folks! Thanks.

North 12 is "Broadway Boogie Woogie" by Piet Mondriaan (died 1944)

West 17 almost has to be Edgar Degas (died 1917)... he was known for painting ballerinas...

That's as much as the knowledge from my art history classes can supply...

lb13

The last one looks like one of Monet's water lily paintings. He did a lot of them.

The second to last...maybe Degas?

I'm surprised there isn't cool software to ID the pics for you all.

ghostjmf wrote:I'm surprised there isn't cool software to ID the pics for you all.

There is, it's called Google Image Search. The problem is that the pieces are too small for it to work with everything.

I'm pretty sure N 16 is Number 2 by Franz Kline.

W 11 is Girl With a Pearl Earring (that's the earring in the image) by Johannes Vermeer.

littlebeast13 wrote:West 17 almost has to be Edgar Degas (died 1917)

Yep, The Dance Class.

Vandal wrote:Background: We are a family of geocachers http://www.geocaching.com, which involves looking for small containers located at various locations all over the country (and world). The containers are tracked using GPS coordinates, so they can be found within a precision of about 20 feet. Typically, the geocaches coordinates are given in standard format (degrees, minutes, seconds):

N 41° 123.45
W 071° 987.65 (I just made these up)

You plug that into your GPS or smart phone app, then go and find it. Woohoo!

Now the fun part. Often the discovery of the coordinates involves solving a puzzle. Some are simple and some are mind-blowingly difficult (relying on ciphers and conversions and other strangeness). The puzzle we are trying to solve involves identifying artists from small samples of famous paintings. We know the last digit of the year the artist died is one the digits in the coordinates.

Here are the paintings for the north coordinates:



and here are the paintings for the west coordinates:



We've identified most of these already using Google image search. The missing artists are for North 8, 12, 15 and 16:






and West 11, 17 and 19:





If you want to show your true artistic skill and identify all of them, feel free. We only need these seven to solve the puzzle.

Have fun, folks! Thanks.

That sounds so much fun! I can't see the pics, however, so I can't help.