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Erosion and Contour Cropping

Erosion and Contour Cropping

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John Steuart Curry

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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