The Plainsman
John Steuart Curry, American, 1897 - 1946
1945
Lithograph on wove Rives paper
250
Image: 15 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (39.9 × 24.5 cm)
Sheet: 18 × 14 1/16 in. (45.7 × 35.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund and the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.945.81.6
Printer
George C. Miller
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, on stone, lower right: JSC 45; titled, in graphite, lower left margin: The Plainsman; signed, in graphite, lower right margin: John Steuart Curry; reverse, stamped, in black ink, lower left: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DEPT. OF ART AND / ARCHAEOLOGY; Watermark, upper left: Rives;
Course History
HIST 6, NAS 30, History of the American West, Ben Madley, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1994.
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, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–April 11, 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. 17.
Provenance
Associated American Artists, New York; sold to present collection, 1945.
Catalogue Raisonne
Cole 40; Czestochowski C-42
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