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Painting
Negro Head
John Steuart Curry, (Dunavant, KS, 1897 - 1946, Madison, WI)
Curry, John Steuart
United States
1897 - 1946
Male
24 x 18 1/2 in. (61 x 47 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1927
1927
1927
1.97L
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, Images of Black People, men, paintings, portraits
Painting
Until research identifies the sitter, Portrait of a Youth or Portrait of a Young Man may be applied as a more appropriate title.
Unfortunately, the name of this young man was not recorded. The title that the work has carried for many years is further dehumanizing. In the historical moment when this painting was made and exhibited, the term “negro” was commonly used—including by significant African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Langston Hughes—to refer to a Black person. Today, however, this terminology is outdated and inappropriate.
John Steuart Curry is known for his narrative and landscape paintings of life in his home state of Kansas. When he painted this luminous portrait, he had just returned from studying art in Paris, France.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
yes, lower right
2005.31
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Memorial Art Gallery
5/10/2000
2005.31DI1
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