Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Representing a group of more

Representing a group of more than three hundred similar sketches executed late in life

Instead of embracing subjectivity

Peterson inserts contemporary African Americans into the history of portraiture—which has traditionally memorialized the rich

Carlos Museum at Emory University

beautiful images with a rich

Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Representing a group of moreWhen John Steuart Curry was growing up on his family farm in Kansas, he would often wander into the high fields of corn. "I remember," he wrote, "wandering through them and being overpowered by the fear of being lost in their green confines." At age 35, Curry returned to those fields to capture the same sense of drama he felt, "beneath our wind blown Kansas skies." Curry rejected the modernists' tendencies toward abstraction and instead developed a