On View
Not on viewObject number1977/8.5
Our Good Earth
Artist
John Steuart Curry
(American, 1897-1946)
Date1942
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionssheet: 12 3/4 × 10 1/8 in. (32.4 × 25.7 cm)
image: 12 3/4 × 10 1/8 in. (32.4 × 25.7 cm)
sheet: 16 7/8 × 12 7/16 in. (42.9 × 31.6 cm)
image: 12 3/4 × 10 1/8 in. (32.4 × 25.7 cm)
sheet: 16 7/8 × 12 7/16 in. (42.9 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Cornelia Robinson
Exhibition History"36 Regionalist prints from the KIA," Dennos Museum Center (Sept. 8 - Nov. 24, 1996), Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI (May 17 - July 13, 1997), Midland Center for the Arts (Aug. 2 - Sept. 21, 1997).
"The American Experience: Prints and Drawings, 1900-1946," KIA Long Gallery (2002).
"A Curator's Legacy: Helen Sheridan and the KIA Collection," KIA Long Gallery (Dec. 20, 2008 - Apr. 19, 2009).Label TextCurry was raise on a farm in northeastern Kansas, and his parents’ philosophy of faith and hard work has much to do with the particular character of their son’s art. After training in the Kansas City Art Institute and Art Institute of Chicago, Curry studied in Europe before returning home to devote himself to the subject matter of Midwestern rural life. For Curry, farm subjects were a means of depicting the tremendous vigor and promise he found in the American experience. Our Good Earth, a heroic depiction of a farmer standing in a field of ripe wheat with his two children, is an expression of what Curry loved most about America.
