The Line Storm BY JOHN STEUART CURRY CURRY BEGAN TO TAKE lithographs in the winter of 1927 at the Art Students’ League, under the tutelage of Charles Locke, “and has worked at stones off and on ever since.” He often makes lithographs of his paintings, and such is The Line Storm, after the famous painting …
Prize Stallions BY JOHN STEUART CURRY THE TAUT VIGOR of horses in action has, since the earliest beginnings of art, been a favoritc subject, concentrating the attention of everyone from the first scratchers on cave walls to Rosa Bonheur, from El Greco to Giorgio di Chirico. The huge, beautifully balanced anatomy of a prize stallion …
Hounds and Coyote BY JOHN STEUART CURRY CURRY IS FASCINATED by animals, whether tamed or wild. In 1932, he followed “The Greatest Show on Earth,” and made several superb circus pictures and lithographs. Curry himself considers Hounds and Coyote one of his best lithographs. The three animals are vessels of the most violent action, …
The Line Storm by JOHN STEUART CURRY (American School) JOHN STEUART CURRY was born on a Kansas farm, the descendant of many generations of farmers. He lived in a country of sudden and fearful changes of weather. He saw the cornfields and the early vegetation of the far-off slopes shriveled to the ground by the …
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BY JOHN STEUART CURRY Only those who have watched the cycle of growing corn and have helped in its planting ,and threshing , can have a true sense of the majesty of the grain. Curry,who has worked with corn at every stage of his career and who likes nothing better than a good roasting ear …
BY JOHN STEUART CURRY JOHN STEUART CURRY is a man whom no transient ambitions and no will-o’-the-wisp of fame could ever lure away from an essential devotion to rural America, specifically the Kansas of his birth. He was born in that state forty-two years ago, and until 1916, when he had his first taste …
