Our Good Earth
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Object Details
- Artist
- John Steuart Curry, born Dunavant, KS 1897-died Madison, WI 1946
- Exhibition Label
- When Curry was asked to create a monumental image for a war-bond poster during World War II, he depicted a noble American farmer, flanked by two carefree children, standing tall in his Kansas wheat field. The imposing figure emphasizes how important farming was to the war effort. This watercolor is a study for the painting, which was then reproduced as a poster captioned “Our Good Earth – Keep It Ours.”
- Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2009
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson and William T. Evans
- 1942
- Object number
- 2001.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- watercolor on illustration board
- Dimensions
- 13 3/8 x 11 in. (34.0 x 27.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\farm
- Figure group\male and child
- Dress\accessory\hat
- Landscape\weather\cloud
- Occupation\farm\farmer
- Record ID
- saam_2001.4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7632eb9fd-b276-4600-9897-8c822fec13e4
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