John Steuart Curry

by Junker, Patricia A.; Adams, Henry; Eldredge, Charles C.; Gambone, Robert L.; Kendall, M. Sue; Mathiak, Lucy J.

• ISBN13: 9781555951399
• ISBN10: 1555951392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr

Summary

This long-awaited volume marks the centennial of an important and controversial artist, one of the great American Regionalists. Essays cover every aspect of his life and work, and reproduce his finest paintings and drawings of farm life in Kansas, the circus, and the American scene in general.

Table of Contents

DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD	7	(2)
RUSSELL PANCZENKO
CURATOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	9	(2)
PATRICIA JUNKER
Color Plates	11	(62)
John Curry	73	(4)
THOMAS H. BENTON
John Steuart Curry: A Critical Assessment	77	(12)
THEODORE F. WOLFF
Prairie Prodigal: John Steuart Curry and Kansas	89	(22)
CHARLES C. ELDREDGE
Space, Weather, Myth, and Abstraction in the Art of John Steuart Curry	111	(22)
HENRY ADAMS
The Use of Religious Motifs in Curry's Art	133	(18)
ROBERT L. GAMBONE
John Steuart Curry and the Pathos of Modern Life: Paintings of the Outcast and the Dispossessed	151	(14)
PATRICIA JUNKER
Alien Corn: An Artist on the Middle Border	165	(18)
M. SUE KENDALL
A Stranger to the Ivory Tower: John Steuart Curry and the University of Wisconsin	183	(12)
LUCY J. MATHIAK
Twilight of Americanism's Golden Age: Curry's Wisconsin Years, 1936-46	195	(16)
PATRICIA JUNKER
The Life and Career of John Steuart Curry: An Annotated Chronology	211	(30)
PATRICIA JUNKER
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY	241	(4)
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION	245	(1)
ABOUT THE AUTHORS	246	(1)
INDEX	247	(5)
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS	252