John Steuart Curry
Subtitle: inventing the Middle West
By: Patricia Junker ; with contributions by Henry Adams ... [et al.].
Contributors: Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946.; Adams, Henry, 1949-; Elvehjem Museum of Art.; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hudson Hills Press; Chazen Museum of Art; Hudson Hills
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Curry, John Steuart, 1897-1946 -- Exhibitions.; Regionalism in art -- United States -- Exhibitions.; Middle West -- In art -- Exhibitions.
Description: John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West is the first comprehensive study in more than fifty years of this member of the great triumvirate of American Regionalists: Thomas Hart Benton, Curry, and Grant Wood.

It revives the reputation of one of the most important and controversial artists of the first half of the twentieth century, whose paintings of farm life in his native Kansas (including baptisms and tornados), of the circus, of American history, and of the American scene in general were dramatically eclipsed by the ascendancy of abstract art and the New York School at midcentury.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-244) and index.
Catalog of an exhibition scheduled to be held at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mar. 7-May 17, 1998, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 13-Aug. 30, 1998, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 11, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999.