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Birth
1897 (Dunavant, Kansas)
Death
1946 (Madison, Wisconsin)
Lived/Active
Kansas/Connecticut
Self portrait - John Steuart Curry - Self Portrait
Often Known For
rural genre, landscape and figure painting, regionalism
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Born in Dunavant, Kansas on November 14, 1897, John Steuart Curry became the youngest member of the famed "Benton-Wood-Curry trio" of Regional Painters of the early 20th-century American Scene movement.
He gained national reputation for his Kansas rural scenes of people terrorized by natural phenomena such as tornadoes, drab farm-house living conditions, religious gatherings such as prayer meeting and baptisms, and spirited animals who got out of control. A good example of his weat (showing 500 of 24589 characters). |
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