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John Steuart Curry

John Steuart Curry (1897 - 1946) was active/lived in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Wisconsin.  John Curry is known for Rural genre, landscape and figure painting, regionalism.

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 weather-related painting was Tornado Over Kansas, 1929, in the collection of the Muskegon Museum of Art in Muskegon, Michigan.  In this scene, a family scurries for shelter, trying to outrun a funnel cloud headed for their home.  The mother carries her baby, and the children rescue pets and toys. It was later said that Curry never directly experienced a tornado but had many scares from them as a child when his family, faced with frightening skies, made frequent trips to their fruit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 24554 characters.]  Artist bio

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