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- Artist
- John Steuart Curry
(American, 1897 – 1946) - Title
- Erosion and Contour Cropping
- Date
- ca. 1938-1940
- Medium
- Oil on canvas mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 30 x 44 1/2 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. John Steuart Curry
- Accession No.
- 49.4.6
- Classification
- Paintings
- Geography
- United States
Related
July 1949, gifted by the artist’s wife, Kathleen Curry (Madison, WI), to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Kroiz, Lauren. "Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era." Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. p. 192, fig. 83
- Myers, Julia R. "A New Chronology of the Development of John Steuart Curry's Murals for the Rotunda of the Kansas State Capitol." Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, vol 43, no. 4 (Winter 2020-21): 254-271. p. 269, fig. 11
- Resource & Ruin: Wisconsin’s Enduring Landscape: Chazen Museum of Art, 12/19/2022–3/26/2023
- John Steuart Curry: At Home in Wisconsin: Museum of Wisconsin Art, 6/27/2014–9/14/2014
- John Steuart Curry: Madison Art Center, 1/19/1969–2/23/1969
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