Manhunt / John Steuart Curry. – Antique Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Manhunt / John Steuart Curry., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Manhunt / John Steuart Curry.
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*Manhunt*, a 1934 lithograph by John Steuart Curry, depicts racial terror in Kansas, with the Ku Klux Klan and the torture and lynching of African Americans among its listed subjects. Curry, who grew up in Kansas and became one of the leading Regionalist painters of the 1930s, published the print in *The American Scene*, a series issued in New York by the Contemporary Print Group that year. Curry signed the image directly on the lithographic stone, and his signature, title, and date all appear on the print, so it is a fully authenticated impression from the original edition.
| Created / published | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 25.8 x 32.8 cm. (image), 29.4 x 40.3 cm. (sheet) |
| Genre | Lithographs 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Signed on stone, J. Curry. Signed, titled and dated. Copyright by Mrs. Kathleen Curry. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Scene, series 2. New York : Contemporary Print Group, 1934. Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.1432 |
| Subjects | Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--People--1930-1940. African Americans--Punishment & torture--Kansas--1930-1940. Lynchings--Kansas--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,701 × 3,762 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220137 |
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