Artist: John Steuart Curry (1897 - 1946)
Nationality: American
Movement: Regionalism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in 1897, John Steuart Curry grew up on a farm in Kansas. From 1919 to 1926 he was employed as a magazine illustrator. He then spent a year in Europe before arriving in New York to encounter his mentor, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. When he began painting, Curry found his subjects from his mid-western roots, his most famous works being Baptism in Kansas and Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake. In 1930’s, Curry became a leading figure of the Regionalism movement and was commissioned to produce several murals, the most notable of which were located in Topeka, Kansas.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Steuart Curry - John Brown 1938 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Steuart Curry - Self Portrait 1927-29 oil on canvas Spencer Museum of Art American
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John Steuart Curry - Oak Tree 1939 oil on canvas mounte Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John Steuart Curry - The Flying Codonas c. 1933 conte crayon and pen Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Steuart Curry - Mississippi Noah 1934 lithograph Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College American
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John Steuart Curry - Negro Head 1927 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John Steuart Curry - Circus Elephants 1932 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Steuart Curry - Tornado over Kansas 1929 oil on canvas Muskegon Museum of Art American
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John Stuart Curry, John Brown, 1939
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John Stuart Curry, The Plainsman, 1945
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John Stuart Curry, Sanctuary, 1944
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John Stuart Curry, Elephants, 1936
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John Stuart Curry, The Missed Leap, 1934
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John Stuart Curry, Summer Afternoon, 1940
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John Stuart Curry, Prize Stallions, 1938
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John Stuart Curry, Stallion and Jack Fighting, 1943
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931 Grant Wood (American, 1892-1942)Oil on Masonite; H. 30,
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John Kay, John Campbell of Blythewood, 1784
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Gray 1766 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Vanderlyn - John Sudam 1829-1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Wollaston - John Stevens c. 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
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John Smibert, John Nelson, 1732
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John Durand - Mrs. John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Smibert - Mrs. John Pitts 1735 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Durand - John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Frazee - John Marshall 1834-35 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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John Hoppner - John Granville 1790-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Johnston - John Peck c. 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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John Smith, Sir John Percival Bart, 1704
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John Smith, John Duke of Marlborough, 1705
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John B. Neagle, William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth), 1834
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of John Scollay 1764 black and white chal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston before 1857 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - The Honorable John Erving c. 1774 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
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Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham, ca. 1790 John Barry (British, active
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Tapestry Fragment of Virgin and St. John Date: about 1520 -

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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San Diego Museum of Art: A Good Impression: A Century of Printmaking in San Diego
Among the printmakers represented in the exhibition are such internationally renowned figures as Harry Sternberg, Italo Scanga, and Françoise Gilot, artists who utilized the traditional printmaking techniques of woodcut and lithography. Also inclu...
California Center for the Arts: The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California
The Next Wave includes approximately 70 works that havebeen created within the past few years, a number of them especially for this exhibition. This survey aims to illuminate a diverse range of aesthetic and thematic concerns in contemp...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The collection was removed from public display last summer for gallery renovation. The museum's collection of Fabergé objects is one of the largest of any museum outside Russia. The new, thematically organized Fabergé gallery features ...
Lump gallery/projects: Alphabet and A to Z: Two Exhibitions Curated by Baltimore's PostTypography and Richmond's The Drama
The 60 alphabets featured in Alphabet were created by artists in North America, Europe, and Asia, and represent work from well-known typographers and designers as well as rising artists and design students. The alphabets in the exhibition re...
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: John A. and Margaret Hill Collection of American Western Art AND Silver Blossoms, Turquoise Mountains: Southwest Indian Jewelry
As a connoisseur of American art, John Hill collected what he believed in, which was the myth of the American West. It is a myth that has shaped this nation more than any other. From it, comes our sense of magisterial landscapes dwarfing human a...
Bailiwick Arts Center: THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER
In a season that is often reduced to obtaining material possessions, MRS. CONEY illustrates in the most beautiful way that not all gifts can be purchased. With a word, a gesture, a song, it shows family relationships that are both complex a...
Columbus Museum of Art: Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland
The exhibition and its national tour are sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. Illusions of Eden is one component of The Heartland Project, a series of three traveling museum exhibitions and an interactive website that will evaluate t...

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John Curry - Artist Painting Prices, Art Appraisal, Artist Paintings [AskART.com]
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Fine Art Presentations
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John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
Yahoo! Directory Painters > John Steuart Curry
Cool Things, Currys Statehouse Studies, Kansas State Historical Society
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