John Steuart Curry
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John Steuart Curry was an American painter whose career spanned the years from 1924 until his death. He was noted for his paintings depicting rural life in his home state, Kansas. Along with Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the first half of the twentieth century. Curry's artistic production was varied, including paintings, book illustrations, prints, and posters.
Self-portrait, 1937
Freeing of the Slaves, by John Steuart Curry. The Union Army, marching through, has just delivered the Emancipation Proclamation. Reading Room, Law Library, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Tornado over Kansas
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Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
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Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
Benton in 1935
Camouflage pattern of the British ship S.S. Alban as documented by Thomas Hart Benton
People of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, in the Hirshhorn Museum collection in Washington, D.C.
In 1924, Benton depicted three landmarks in New York City's Madison Square within his painting New York, Early Twenties.