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John Steuart Curry  (1897–1946)  wikidata:Q3290532
 
John Steuart Curry
Alternative names
John Curry; John Stewart Curry; John-Stuart Curry; John Stuart Curry
Description American painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 14 November 1897 Edit this at Wikidata 29 August 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Dunavant Madison
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creator QS:P170,Q3290532
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English: John Brown by John Steuart Curry (study for the Kansas Mural). Oil on canvas, 69 x 45 in. (175.3 x 114.3 cm). Throughout the 1930s, Curry, a native of Kansas, was closely associated with Thomas Hart Benton as a member of the artistic movement known as Regionalism. This painting by Curry is a large study for the artist’s mural in the rotunda of the Kansas State Capitol. One of the most compelling and controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, John Brown devoted his life to opposing the extension of slavery in the 1850s into the Kansas Territory in battles that presaged the Civil War, which began in 1861. Curry depicted Brown larger-than-life in an open, stark landscape besieged by a tornado, a meteorological symbol for the conflict, and with a slave at his side. The abolitionist’s crazed expression and animated hair and beard suggest the messianic fervor that fueled his opposition to human bondage.
Date 1939
date QS:P571,+1939-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Source/Photographer https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488649
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