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...foremost U.S. painters puttered aimlessly about his studio in Madison, Wis., last week, smoking his pipe and gazing out the windows. He was at loose ends and liking it. He was John Steuart Curry, famed painter of his native Midwest, and his rest was well deserved. Painter Curry had just finished two of the biggest painting jobs of his life. Off & on for the past three years, in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka, and in the University of Wisconsin's law school, he had been hard at work on the heroic figures and lowering backgrounds...
...City, death came last week to the most famed artist in the U.S. For two months he had fought a losing battle against cancer of the liver. At his bedside his old friend Thomas Benton had helped him toast the Midwest school of U.S. realism which they and John Steuart Curry had founded and brought to national fame. The trio would henceforth be a duet. Grant Wood was dead...
...gardening that went on at the American Academy of Arts, the National Academy grew more sedate as it grew older. Artistic radicals rebel against its standards, meekly join if they are asked. Today in the select roster of its membership Luigi Lucioni, Eugene Speicher, Guy Pene du Bois, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh rank with Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent. (Grant Wood and Thomas Benton have never been invited; neither was James McNeill Whistler...
...getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged symbolic angel on horse back chasing the setting...
Today Reeves Lewenthal's Associated American Artists' Galleries has a roster of 43 U.S. artists, including such top-flighters as Thomas Benton, Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, Georges Schreiber, Max Weber, Adolf Dehn, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Blanch, Raphael Soyer, sells everything from $2 Christmas cards to $12,000 paintings. Its staff of 43 clerical workers sends out some 3,000,000 pieces of mail a year, helps handle the throng of artists (as many as 80 a week) who want a place on Lewenthal's roster...