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John Stuart Curry's Pageant of America

by Laurence E. Schmeckebier

Pages: 363

Contributors: Laurence E. Schmeckebier

Publisher: American Artists Group

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1943

Subjects: Curry, John Steuart,--1897-1946

Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgement

Publisher's Note

Contents

Color Plates

Introduction

3: In Transition 1925-1927

4: Discovery of a Style 1928

5: Years of Crisis 1929-1936

6: Artist in Residence 1936

1: Introductory

2: Folk Religion

3: Rural Storms

4: Farm Life

5: Spectacles

6: The Artist and Society

7: Mural Decorations

A Critic's Opinion

Index

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...Coronado to Zebulon Pike, John Brown to William Allen...background from which the artist John Steuart Curry evolved. Curry was born November 14, 1897, on a farm near Dunavant...Mrs. Currys father, John Steuart, came from Sparta...
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...Gallery in April 1915, by which time John * Nash had joined the group. Other...Currie, Ken. See GLASGOW SCHOOL. Curry, John Steuart 1897-1946 . American painter. He was born...subjects include the activities of John Brown, the famous campaigner against...
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...Copland, Aaron 1900- , 616 Copley, John Singleton 1738-1815 , 362 Coram...Hernando 1485-1547 , 234 Cotton, John 1584-1652 , 286 , 289 , 353 Council...525 , 567 - 568 , 627 , 642 - 655 Curry, John Steuart 1897-1946 , 616 Curti, Merle 1897- , 612...
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clip save John Steuart Curry (1897-1946). Tornado Over Kansas, 1929. Oil on canvas; 50 1/2...Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan. the artist John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was the eldest of five children and grew...
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American painters--Criticism and interpretation, Arbor Day--2007 AD, Arbor Day--Portrayals, Art education--Tests, problems and exercises, Painters, American--Criticism and interpretation, Tree Planting Group (Painting)--Criticism and interpretation, Wood, Grant--Criticism and interpretation

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...depicted life on the prairie, and he was one of the three major "American Regionalist" painters along with John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) and Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975). Wood taught in the public school system of Cedar Rapids, established...

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CURRY, JOHN STEUART 1897 1946, American painter, b. Dunavant, Jefferson co., Kans. He spent...and the statehouse in Topeka, Kans. See L. E. Schmeckebier, John Steuart Currys Pageant of America (1943...

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