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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
Ensure that the following sections are organized by year. For instance, the section ''Marriage and children'' might be presented before or after the ''Expanded descriptions'', and [[vice versa]].
 
Ensure that the following sections are organized by year. For instance, the section ''Marriage and children'' might be presented before or after the ''Expanded descriptions'', and [[vice versa]].
===Bibliography===
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===Early life===
 
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Explain the subject's early life historically using a journalistic style.<ref>Last, first (date).  [http://URL Name of page].  Page xx.  Publisher: xxxx</ref>
===Works===
 
Curry was known for his oil paintings and mural cycles. In August of 1928 Curry painted Baptism in Kansas, which was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. The painting was praised by the New York Times and earned Curry the attention of Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 1931 Mrs. Vanderbilt Whitney purchased the painting Baptism in Kansas for the Whitney Museum in New York City, thus establishing him as a major artist. Baptism in Kansas reflected the fanatic religious sects that held open-air baptisms that these popular religious groups were a part of Curry’s rural life in Kansas. While a traditional religious scene is depicted by Curry with all the reverence one would expect from such a subject no well know Baptismal representations by old world masters employ the compositional layout that Curry favors.  Under her patronage Curry painted Tornado Over Kansas, which depicts a farmer, approaching a tornado while his wife ushers the family and pets into the cyclone cellar. The painting was unveiled in 1929 just before the crash of the stock market and provided those in the city with the romance of his man versus nature themes. During the 1930s Curry embraced the heartland of America and focused on his home state of Kansas. He depicted common scenes of the laborer, family and land in order to demonstrate peace and struggle and perseverance that he had come to believe was the essence of American life. Every Sincere Artist Knows that there is no bandwagon that goes all the way; no seeming success of the moment that will atone for the thing he knows in his heart he has not yet accomplished or for the thing he has left undone.<ref name="Mongerson Wunderlich"/ref>  Curry’s works were painted with movement which was conveyed by the free brush work and energized forms that characterized his style. His control over brushstrokes created emotions such as excitement, fear, and despair in his paintings. His fellow Regionalists who also painted action and movement influenced Curry’s style.<ref name="James M. Dennis"/ref>
 
 
 
 
 
===Reactions===
 
Despite popularity among the rest of the country native Kansans were less than thrilled with his works. What Curry believed to be images that expressed positive virtues about the place he remembered from childhood was conceived as making fun of the worst aspects of the state. Natives found the inclusion of outdoor baptisms and tornados to perpetuate negative stereotypes associated with Kansas and lead to public embarrassment.<ref name="M. Sue Kendall"/ref>Curry had sought to capture the pastoral beauty of the terrain but when these paintings were displayed in New York galleries the inferiority complex among Kansans grew and they were humiliated by Curry’s paintings. Resentment grew, as the Chamber of Commerce needed Curry’s paintings as much as it needed other proponents of stereotypes such as the Wizard of Oz, which was released in 1939.  However, New York audience was fascinated by Curry’s paintings. They were sick of the commercialization that surrounded their everyday lives and Curry’s paintings allowed them to view a more primitive isolated version of America.<ref name="M. Sue Kendall"/ref>
 
 
 
 
===Murals===
 
Curry's most famous works were murals designed for the Kansas Statehouse, in Topeka. In June of 1937 Newspaper editors raised money to commission the states most famous artist, John Stuart Curry to paint murals in the statehouse. Curry’s concept was divided into three concepts: first the Settlement of Kansas which depicted the Conquistadors and Plainsmen, second the Life of a Homesteader which would depict John Brown, and third, Pastoral Prosperity which would include scenes of modern Kansas. Curry wanted to be free to express his own ideas regarding the murals: I have my own ideas about telling the story of pioneers coming into Kansas. I want to paint this war with nature and I want to paint the things I feel as a native Kansan  The political controversy prevented the completion of the murals. Expensive Italian marble slabs covered the spot in the rotunda that the eight panels depicting scenes from “the life of the Kansas homesteader”; the legislative committee refused to move them from the wall to make way for Curry’s mural. However, behind the refusal were two real issues with Curry’s paintings. The first being that Curry’s factual details were not correct, for instance they criticized the tails of his animals calling them not natural like.<ref name="James M. Dennis"/ref>  In Curry’s opinion these could problems could be easily fixed however, the next issue the committee took issue with was the objection to the image of Kansas abolitionist John Brown in front of a crowd of people and a tornado. In particular they objected to the blood on John Brown’s hands, the prairie fires, and tornadoes. These inclusions were thought by some to show the state in a negative light. John Brown led the armed raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859. He was considered a traitor and executed for murder. Curry, tried to explain that while the blood on Brown’s hands was not literal, but his acts caused bloodshed.  The tornado was a symbol of the abolitionist’s passion. However, the people of Kansas saw its inclusion as a negative statement about bad weather. In his presentation to the people, Curry expressed that he wanted to get into his pictures the iron that is the Kansas people; not a soft, soppy presentation.<ref name="James M. Dennis"/ref>  When rejected Curry, in anger left the finished murals unsigned at his death in 1946. Since Curry's death his murals have come to be regarded as masterpieces on par with similar works done by his contemporary Thomas Benton.
 
 
 
===Politics===
 
Curry’s art in general was conservative in Political content. He believed that art was for the common person. He did not believe in political propaganda particularly the Marxist kind that Diego Rivera popularized in the 1930’s. Curry avoided exploiting the controversial subjects that Rivera became involved because Curry did not believe they added any artistic quality to the work. He did create a few political sketches or studies, but these were never expanded on, rather they were public events that Curry was compelled to see. Curry did a few semi political paintings, but they evolved out of an experience of Curry’s rather than created as a display of social commentary. The Return of Private Davis completed in 1940 was first witnessed near his home in 1918, and a similar study was made in France during 1926. Schmeckenbier relates this painting to the Baptism: a rural religious ceremony whose tragedy is intensified by the realization that this son of the fresh green Kansas prairies was sacrificed on a battlefield whose ideological remoteness was as dramatic as its geographical.<ref name="Laurence E. Schmeckebier"> Schmeckebier, Laurence E. John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America. New York: American Artists Group Inc., 1943. </ref>  The painting does not express a political spectacle, rather Curry’s personal feelings. Conversely, Parade to War depicts departing soldiers rather than the return of a victim. Curry portrays the personal tragedy, suffering and death associated with war because Curry himself has experienced the effects of war. Curry was working in a time period fraught with turmoil; He was working during the Great Depression, which was flanked on each side by a World War. He was inspired by a mass anti war sentiment that was reflected in literary works such as All Quiet on the Western Front. Along with war scenes Curry also produced a number of manhunt and fugitive subjects. These ideas were inspired by remembrances from his own childhood, but also from publicized events during the early 1930’s. The Kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s son and John Dillinger’s robbery cases were well known and public deaths such as lynching were often the result of such crimes. These earlier works would influence later Curry’s mural work in the Department of Justice Building.<ref name="Laurence E. Schmeckebier"/ref>
 
 
 
==Philosophical and/or political views==
 
Wikipedia is [[WP:NOT#SOAPBOX|not a soapbox]] for individuals to espouse their views. However, views held by politicians, writers, and others may be ''summarize'' in their biography only to the extent those views are covered by [[WP:RS|reliable sources]] that are ''independent'' of the control of the politician, writer, etc.
 
 
 
==Published works==
 
If any, list the works organized by date of publication. See [[Charles Darwin]] for example.
 
 
 
==Awards==
 
(If any)
 
 
 
==References==
 
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Include a [[bibliography]] listed in [[The MLA style manual|MLA]] format. Use [http://www.easybib.com/ EasyBib.com] for assisted MLA-formatted bibliography entries, or [[OttoBib]] for automatic bibliography creation from a list of [[ISBN]] numbers. See [[Reference management software]] for additional tools.
 
 
 
[[Wikipedia:Cite_sources|Always cite your sources!]] [[Wikipedia:No original research|No original research!]]<ref>Last, first (date).  [http://URL Name of page].  Page xx.  Publisher: xxxx</ref>
 
 
 
==Notes/Further reading==
 
 
 
==See also==
 
List related internal (Wikipedia) articles in alphabetical order. Common nouns are listed first. Proper nouns follow.
 
*[[autobiography]]
 
*[[biography]]
 
 
 
==External links==
 
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