Sanctuary (Flood Relief)
John Steuart Curry, American, 1897 - 1946
1944
Lithograph on wove paper
250
Image: 11 5/8 × 15 11/16 in. (29.5 × 39.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/16 × 18 1/4 in. (35.7 × 46.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.945.5
Publisher
Associated American Artists, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: John Steuart Curry; initialled and dated, in stone, lower right: JSC 44 watermark: LES BIBLIOPH...
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930's and 1940's, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 3, 1994-March 5, 1995
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20- July 24, 2022.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Looking for America: Prints of Rural Life from the 1930s and 1940s, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1994, listed no. 18.
Provenance
Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1945.
Catalogue Raisonne
Cole 38; Czestochowski C-41
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