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Coyotes Stealing a Pig

Coyotes Stealing a Pig

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John Steuart Curry

The naturalistic scene of coyotes stealing piglets from a sty can be read as an allegory of robber barons appropriating land in the American West.
Artist
John Steuart Curry
(American, 1897 – 1946)
Title
Coyotes Stealing a Pig
Date
1927
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
12 15/16 x 18 in. Overall
Credit
Gift in memory of my wife, Ellen Curry Schuster, Daniel B. Schuster M.D.
Accession No.
1991.551
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

December 1991, gifted by Dr. Daniel B. Schuster (Rush, NY) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Loaded Image, The: Printmaking as Persuasion: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/18/2011–10/30/2011
  • Regionalist Prints : Benton, Curry, Wood: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/7/1998–3/29/1998
  • Some Additions to the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 4/17/1993–7/18/1993

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