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John Steuart Curry | |||
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1897 in Dunavant, KS Died 1946 in Madison, WI |
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| Valley of the Wisconsin, 1946 | ||||
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paint on canvas 37 1/2 x 59 1/2 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, and the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 2000.3 |
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| Curry, along with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, was a Regionalist painter whose work celebrated rural Midwestern America in the 1930s. He painted the people and issues of modern life in the years of the Great Depression and World War II, with a socially oriented style that sought to reclaim an agrarian past. In 1937 he was hired as an artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin, the first position of its kind in the country. |
