Property from the KERCHEVAL COLLECTION
John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

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John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)

Ajax

signed John Steuart Curry, dated 1936-37 and inscribed with title, lower right--oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 48 1/4in. (92.3 x 122.5cm.)
Provenance
Walker Galleries, New York
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Literature
J.S. Czestochowski, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America, Columbia, Missouri, 1981, p. 61, no. 36, illus.

Related Literature:
S. Cole, Jr., The Lithographs of John Steuart Curry: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1976, no. 14
L.E. Schmeckebier, John Steuart Curry's Paegent of America, New York, 1943, p. 186
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute of Art, International Exhibition of Paintings, Oct.-Dec., 1936, no. 68, pl. 32, illus.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Regional Exhibition, Paintings by Artists West of the Mississippi, Oct., 1938, n.p., no. 26
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Animals in American Art: 1880's - 1980's, April 1977-Oct.1980
Wichita, Kansas, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, March 1981

Lot Essay

This painting relates directly to a lithograph of the same title that Curry executed in 1931. The lithograph and this oil were conceived from a group of sketches of Hereford cattle that Curry made in the summer of 1930 in Kansas.