John Steuart Curry

(American, 1897 – 1946)

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John Steuart Curry
(American, 1897 – 1946)

  • oil on canvas
    30 x 40 inches
    signed and dated lower left
    painted c. 1940

    Provenance:

    Spanierman Gallery
    Private collection, New York

    This painting relates to the - "My Friend Flicka" works done in 1940

  • Like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry was a major American scene painter of the 1930s. His subjects were taken from American history and his most famous mural, The Tragic Prelude (1938–40), is in Topeka at the Kansas State Capitol.

    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.

    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.