When John Steuart Curry was growing up on his family farm in Kansas, he would often wander into the high fields of corn. "I remember," he wrote, "wandering through them and being overpowered by the fear of being lost in their green confines." At age 35, Curry returned to those fields to capture the same sense of drama he felt, "beneath our wind-blown Kansas skies." Curry rejected the modernists' tendencies toward abstraction and instead developed a more straightforward representational style in which he rendered images of Midwestern life.
Print Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches (includes a white border)
Title:Kansas Cornfield
Artist: Curry, John Steuart
Artist Bio: American, 1897–1946
Date: 1933
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 3/8 x 38 3/8 in.
Credit Line:Wichita Art Museum, Roland P. Murdock Collection