Manhunt

John Steuart Curry, American, 1897 - 1946

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1934

Lithograph on wove [BFK RIVES FRANCE] paper

10 of planned 300

Image: 9 3/4 × 12 13/16 in. (24.8 × 32.5 cm)

Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 7/16 in. (40 × 29 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Transferred from the Dartmouth College Library

2007.57.8

Portfolio / Series Title

The Contemporary Print Group: American Scene No. 2: Six Lithographs by Artists Alive to Social Forces

Printer

George C. Miller

Publisher

Contemporary Print Group, New York

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed in stone, lower left: J CURRY; signed and dated, in pencil, lower right margin: John Steuart Curry 1934; titled, in pencil, lower left margin: "Manhunt"; stamped on reverse, lower left: Contemporary Print Group NY / The American Scene, no. 2 / 772.73fc767a ser-2; stamped on reverse, lower right: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / LIBRARY Watermark: BFK

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 40.04/LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad, Mary Coffey, Winter 2022

Provenance

Purchased by the Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth College, November 1934; transferred to present collection, 2007.

Catalogue Raisonne

Cole, Sylvan. The Lithographs of John Steuart Curry. New York: Associated American Artists, 1976. No. 22

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