John Steuart Curry
(1862 - 1954)
- Born in Dunavant
- Leader in Realistic Regionalism art movement
- Commissioned to paint murals in Kansas State Capitol
- Worked amidst conflict, controversy, and criticism and as a result, left murals unfinished and unsigned
- Tragic Prelude mural of John Brown among nation’s most famous public art
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