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John Steuart Curry

John Steuart Curry was born on a farm in Dunavant, Kansas, in 1897. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design in 1916, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1916 to 1918, and Geneva College from 1918 to 1919. His first solo exhibition was at the Whitney Studio Club in New York City in 1930. Along with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, he was a major American Scene painter of the 1930s, taking his subjects from American history. Curry's most famous mural, The Tragic Prelude (1938–40), is in Topeka at the Kansas State Capitol. The artist died in 1946 while serving as artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, a position he had held for ten years.

National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996

Alternate Names
Curry, John Steuart
John Curry
Birth
1897
Birth Location
Dunavant, Kansas, United States
Death
1946
Death Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Gender
male
Nationalities
American
American?
american,
teacher of
Lamar Dodd
student of
John Warner Norton
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Selected Images of John Steuart Curry

(no title) (John Steuart Curry, ca. June 1942)
(no title) (Peter A. Juley & Son, not after 1929)
(no title) (Andrew W. Hopkins, 1936 Aug. 31)
(no title) (Peter A. Juley & Son, not after 1929)
(no title) (1936 or 1937)
(no title) (University of Kansas, 19--)

Objects at Gilcrease Museum (1)

Horses Running Before a Storm (John Steuart Curry, 1931)

Objects at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (1)

Self-Portrait (John Steuart Curry, 1935)

Objects at National Museum of Wildlife Art (1)

Coyotes Stealing a Pig (John Steuart Curry, 1927)

Objects at Princeton University Art Museum (2)

Our Good Earth (John Steuart Curry, 1938)
The Missed Leap (John Steuart Curry)

Objects at Colby College Museum of Art (2)

Prize Stallions (John Steuart Curry, 1938)
The Storm (John Steuart Curry, 1930)

Objects at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (3)

John Brown (John S. Curry, 1940)
The Plainsman (John S. Curry, 1945)
Coyotes Stealing a Pig (John S. Curry, 1927)

Objects at National Portrait Gallery (4)

John Steuart Curry Self-Portrait (John Steuart Curry, 1939)
Van Wyck Brooks (John Steuart Curry, 1936)
Van Wyck Brooks (John Steuart Curry, 1936)
John Steuart Curry Self-Portrait (John Steuart Curry, 1942)

Objects at Archives of American Art (5)

http://data.aaa.si.edu/collection/9459
(no title) (John Steuart Curry, 1940 December 22)
(no title) (Margaret D. Engle, 1942 March 11)
(no title) (John Steuart Curry, circa 1910)
(no title) (John Steuart Curry, ca. June 1942)

Objects at Smithsonian American Art Museum (17)

Sanctuary (John Steuart Curry, 1944)
The Plainsman (John Steuart Curry, 1945)
The Missed Leap (John Steuart Curry, 1934)
Stallion and Jack Fighting (John Steuart Curry, 1943)
Ajax (John Steuart Curry, 1936-37)
Stallion and Jack Fighting (John Steuart Curry, 1943)
The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences (Mural Study for Interior Building, General Land Office, Washington, D.C.) (John Steuart Curry, ca. 1935-1943)
Self-Portrait (John Steuart Curry, 1928)
The Fugitive (John Steuart Curry, 1935)
Valley of the Wisconsin (John Steuart Curry, 1945)
The Line Storm (John Steuart Curry, 1935)
Circus Elephants (John Steuart Curry, 1936)
Coyotes Stealing a Pig (John Steuart Curry, 1927)
Our Good Earth. . .Keep It Ours (John Steuart Curry, 1942)
The Plainsman (John Steuart Curry)
Our Good Earth (John Steuart Curry, 1942)
Our Good Earth (John Steuart Curry, 1942)