Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Peterson inserts contemporary African Americans

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

beautiful images with a rich

Flat Print Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches (includes a white border)

Instead of embracing subjectivity

for the artist

Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils Peterson inserts contemporary African AmericansWhen 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