The Missed Leap
The Missed Leap
John Steuart Curry
(American, 1897 – 1946)
1934
Lithograph
16 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (42.9 x 24.8 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right. Edition of 100.
A trapeze performer misses the catch high beneath the big top. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
The print belongs to the circus subjects Curry developed after travelling with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for about ten weeks in 1932, the same body of work that produced The Flying Codonas. Impressions are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art.
John Steuart Curry (1897–1946)
John Steuart Curry was born on a farm near Dunavant, Kansas, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago before working as a magazine illustrator. After a year in Paris in 1926, he found early support from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and his Baptism in Kansas (1928) entered the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1932 he travelled for about ten weeks with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the source of a series of circus paintings and prints. He taught at Cooper Union and the Art Students League, painted federal murals for the Departments of Justice and the Interior in Washington, and in 1936 became artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, a post he held until his death. His murals for the Kansas State Capitol, including Tragic Prelude with its figure of John Brown, met legislative opposition and were left unsigned. With Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he is counted among the three principal Regionalists.
A trapeze performer misses the catch high beneath the big top. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.
The print belongs to the circus subjects Curry developed after travelling with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for about ten weeks in 1932, the same body of work that produced The Flying Codonas. Impressions are in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Spencer Museum of Art.
John Steuart Curry (1897–1946)
John Steuart Curry was born on a farm near Dunavant, Kansas, and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago before working as a magazine illustrator. After a year in Paris in 1926, he found early support from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and his Baptism in Kansas (1928) entered the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1932 he travelled for about ten weeks with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the source of a series of circus paintings and prints. He taught at Cooper Union and the Art Students League, painted federal murals for the Departments of Justice and the Interior in Washington, and in 1936 became artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, a post he held until his death. His murals for the Kansas State Capitol, including Tragic Prelude with its figure of John Brown, met legislative opposition and were left unsigned. With Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, he is counted among the three principal Regionalists.
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