Oral history interview with Kathleen Curry relating to John Steuart Curry
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 19 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Curry, Kathleen, 1899-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Kansas
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- Kansas
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Regionalism
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Curry, Kathleen, 1899-
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Katleen Curry (1899-) is the wife of regionalist painter John Steuart Curry.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 and 1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.curry90
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Kathleen Curry regarding John Steuart Curry, conducted on 1990 and 1992, by Robert F. Brown, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Curry discusses her childhood; meeting John Steuart Curry and their subsequent marriage; their friends; his work; his temperment; their relationship; moving to Wisconsin where he became the artist in residence in the School of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin; his major mural projects; Laurence Schmeckebier's writing of "John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America"; J. S. Curry's death and the hardships that followed.