[John Brown] / JSC. – Historic Print
![[John Brown] / JSC., 1939 — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/15ee7ccd4799-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[John Brown] / JSC.
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John Brown stands at the center of this lithograph with a rifle and a Bible, two emblems that together suggest the fierce moral certainty Curry gave the abolitionist. The print reproduces a figure from Curry's mural *Tragic Prelude* (1937–1942) in the Kansas State Capitol, which shows Brown during the violent struggle over slavery known as Bleeding Kansas. Curry, who was raised in Kansas, signed both the stone and the sheet for this 1939 edition of 250. It offers a useful view of how Depression-era regional painters turned frontier history into national subject matter.
| Created / published | 1939 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 46.4 x 34.4 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Signed JSC 1939 on stone; signed John Steuart Curry in pencil below print. Edition of 250. Based on a mural in the Kansas state capitol. Purchase; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:017). Cole 34. |
| Subjects | Brown, John,--1800-1859. Abolitionists--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,826 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219724 |
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