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Negro Head
192724 x 18 1/2 in. (61 x 47 cm)
John Steuart Curry
United States (Dunavant, KS, 1897 - 1946, Madison, WI)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
2005.31
Location: Currently on view
According to the [previous owner], Curry met the subject of this painting, a sugar cane worker, on a trip to Cuba.
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This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties 10/28/2011 - 9/16/2012
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- Memorial Art Gallery. ARTiculate. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
- Article Author: Griffey, Randall R.. Article Title: Reconsidering the Soil: The Stieglitz Circle, The Regionalists and Culbural Euge. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Teresa Carbone, ed. Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. Page Number: 247, Figure Number: 185, p. 246
- Article Author: McFarlane, Kadian. Article Title: My Face. Article Scope: Poetry. Community Voices in the Gallery: a Collection of Writings by Members of our Community Inspired by Works of Art at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2009. Page Number: 32
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Laurence E. Schmeckebier. John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America. New York, NY: American Artists Group, 1943.
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