Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Carlos Museum at Emory University

Carlos Museum at Emory University

Flat Print Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches (includes a white border)

Representing a group of more than three hundred similar sketches executed late in life

Canvas: 16 x 12 x 1

Instead of embracing subjectivity

Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Carlos Museum at Emory UniversityWhen John Steuart Curry was growing up on his family farm in Kansas, he would often wander into the high fields of corn. "I remember," he wrote, "wandering through them and being overpowered by the fear of being lost in their green confines." At age 35, Curry returned to those fields to capture the same sense of drama he felt, "beneath our wind blown Kansas skies." Curry rejected the modernists' tendencies toward abstraction and instead developed a