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This artist depicted two women sitting side-by-side and a man sitting a few feet away watching the moon rise in a painting paired with The Lonely Tree. (20[1])A painting by this artist inspired a scene of crashed Luftwaffe planes (20[2])by Paul Nash. (20[3])This artist depicted his wife Caroline staring out a window at a (20[1])ship’s mast on the Elbe River. This artist, (20[1])whose lifelong trauma over his brother’s drowning inspired an (*) arctic landscape, (10[3]0[1])included a (10[1])monk (10[1])staring (0[1])at the ocean (10[2])as one of his (10[1])trademark (10[3])rückenfiguren (10[3])("ROOK-in-fee-GOOR-in"). An 1818 painting (10[1])by this artist depicts a man with (10[1])a walking stick (10[3]0[1])standing with his back (10[1])to the viewer (10[3])atop a rocky precipice. (10[1])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this Romantic artist of Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

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