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John Brown

Artist John Steuart Curry (American, 1897-1946)

Date1939

Dimensions14 7/16 × 10 1/8 in. (36.7 × 25.7 cm)

Mediumlithograph on wove paper

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineWilliam J. Hitchcock Fund in memory of Grace J. Hitchcock

Object number

2024.170

Not on View

DescriptionJohn Brown depicts the titular abolitionist standing at the center of the print, his arms outstretched and his mouth open as if in mid-sermon Works of Art for Consideration Toledo Museum of Art with the wind in his hair and beard. A Black figure looks up at him in the bottom left corner of the print. A tornado occupies the left background, and covered wagons roll across the middle of the composition. Deliberate mark making with similar qualities to pencil drawings is characteristic of Curry’s lithography, and prominently shown here.

Published ReferencesCole, Sylvan, The Lithographs of John Steuart Curry: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, American Artists Group, 1976, p. 34.