GALLERY TOUR
When the 16 works of art are arranged correctly in the gallery, the first letters of the names of the artists (going clockwise from the northwest corner) spell the phrase MEERGEREN WAS THIS.
FORGER is the correct answer to this puzzle.
The works of art, from northwest and moving clockwise, are:
North wall:
Son of Man – Magritte
Drawing Hands – Escher
Molded Plywood Chair – Eames
La Moulin de la Galette – Renoir
East wall:
Still Life With Teapot and Fruit – Gauguin
The Hat Makes the Man – Ernst
The Dream – Rousseau
F – Erte
South wall:
The Red Cube – Noguchi (out the window)
American Gothic – Wood
Moon and Half Dome – Adams
George Washington – Stuart
West wall:
At the Moulin Rouge – Toulouse-Lautrec
Untitled – Haring
Le Grande Odalisque – Ingres
Sunday Afternoon on Le Grande Jatte – Seurat