John Steuart Curry
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Curry sketching Anderson's daughter, Susan Anderson, age 9, while working on the mural "Kansas Homestead" General Land Office, Department of the Interior. ca. 1940, unidentified photographer. Don Anderson papers relating to John Steuart Curry, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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John Steuart Curry November 14, 1897 Dunavant, Kansas |
| Died | August 29, 1946 (aged 48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
| Notable work | Tornado Over Kansas |
| Movement | Regionalism |
John Steuart Curry (November 14, 1897 – August 29, 1946) was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the first half of the twentieth century.
Curry's artistic production was varied, including painting, book illustration, prints and posters. For a further discussion of his artistic pieces as individual works, see Artwork by John Steuart Curry.
Curry was born on a farm in Dunavant, Kansas, November 14, 1897. He was the eldest of five children to parents Smith and Margaret Curry. Despite growing up on a Midwestern farm, both of Curry's parents were college educated and had even visited Europe for their honeymoon. Curry's early life consisted of caring for the animals on the farm, attending the nearby high school and excelling in athletics. His childhood home was filled with many reproductions of Peter Paul Rubens and Gustave Doré, and these artist's styles played a significant role in crafting John Curry's own style.
His family was very religious as were most people in Dunavant. Curry was encouraged to paint animals around the farm and at the age of twelve he had his first art lesson. In 1916 John entered the Kansas City Art Institute, but after only a month there he transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he stayed for two years. In 1918 he attended Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. After he graduated, Curry worked as an illustrator from 1921 to 1926. He worked for several magazines including Boys' Life, St. Nicholas, County Gentleman,and The Saturday Evening Post.
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