The Bathers
Framed: 37 5/8 × 47 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (95.58 × 121.29 × 6.35 cm)
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John Steuart Curry, Ferargil Galleries, New York, November 29-December 12, 1930, no cat.
A Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by John Steuart Curry, Lakeside Press Galleries, Chicago, March 1-April 28, 1939, no. 19.
The Art of John Steuart Curry, Milwaukee Art Institute, September 5-October 15, 1946, no. 4.
John Steuart Curry Memorial Exhibition, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, December 16, 1952-February 8, 1953, no cat.
One-Man Exhibition of Work by John Steuart Curry, Wichita Art Museum, KS, March 22-April 23, 1953, no. 2.
John Steuart Curry: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Work, organized by the University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, October 3-November 3, 1970, no. 5.
John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI, March 7-January 3, 1999 (traveled), no. 11.
Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 5-July 31, 2005, no cat.
John Steuart Curry;
To Kathleen Gould Curry (the artist's wife), 1946;
To Ellen Curry Schuster (their daughter);
To Dr. Daniel B. Schuster (husband of Ellen Curry Schuster), Rush, N.Y., 1982;
To estate of Daniel Schuster, 1996;
To John Steuart Curry Foundation, 1997;
To The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1998.
"Kansas Has Found Her Homer," New York Times, December 7, 1930, sec. 9, 11.
Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by John Steuart Curry, with an Evaluation of the Artist and His Work by Thomas Craven, exh. cat. (Chicago: Lakeside Press Galleries, 1939), 13.
"Important Works of John Steuart Curry," Demcourier 11 (April 1941), 16.
Laurence E. Schmeckebier, John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America (New York: American Artists Group, 1943), 48, 58-59, 258, 272.
The Art of John Steuart Curry, exh. cat. (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Institute, 1946), 3.
John Steuart Curry: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Work Held at the Kansas State Capitol, exh. cat. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1970), 59, 76.
Donald D. Jones, "Kansas' Second Look at Curry Paintings," Kansas City Star Magazine, September 27, 1970, 9.
"Selected Paintings by John Steuart Curry," Kansas Quarterly 2 (Fall 1970), 59.
Patricia Junker et al., John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West, exh. cat. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1998), 21, 90, 142-43.
Patricia Junker, "John Steuart Curry," American Art Review 10 (June 1998), 130.
David Bonetti, "A Social Realist Revived," San Francisco Examiner, June 12, 1998, D19.
Bram Dijkstra, American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with Columbus Museum of Art, 2003), 53-55.
Jonathan Weinberg, Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004), 76-79, 202.
Randall R. Griffey, "Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse," American Art Review 17 (April 2005), 100.
