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John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

Aliases: John Stewart Curry

Professions: Painter; Lithographer

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    John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

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    JOHN STEUART CURRY

    JOHN STEUART CURRY

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    John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

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    John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

    John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

John Steuart Curry Biography

(b nr Dunavant, KS, 14 Nov 1897; d Madison, WI, 29 Aug 1946). American painter and illustrator. As one of the ‘Regionalist triumvirate’, with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he has been most often characterized as a faithful chronicler of rural life in Kansas. From 1916 to 1918 he was at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1919 he began study in the studio of Harvey Dunn (1884–1952) in Tenafly, NJ. After seven years as an illustrator in and around New York, he went to Paris in 1926 to study with the Russian Academician Vasily Shukhayev. Ironically, it was on Curry’s return to the East Coast the following year that he began to earn his reputation as a Regionalist by painting memories of Kansas from his studio in the fashionable art colony of Westport, CT. Baptism in Kansas (1928; New York, Whitney, for illustration see AMERICAN SCENE PAINTING) shows a country child being baptized in a cattle trough. Such paintings of early American life appealed to certain East Coast urban viewers seeking to recover a lost past.

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