John Steuart Curry

Born on a farm in Dunavant, Kansas, in 1897, John Steuart Curry became a pivotal figure in American art, celebrated for his powerful depictions of Midwestern life. Despite his rural upbringing, his parents were college-educated and exposed him to art through reproductions of masters like Peter Paul Rubens and Gustave Doré, whose styles would later influence his dynamic brushwork. Curry's early life involved farm chores and excelling in athletics, before he pursued formal art…