Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1988
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In the first of these two volumes, M. Sue Kendall treats the cultural contexts that helped shape the paintings of John Steuart Curry and sparked reactions to his murals at the Kansas statehouse in Topeka. Emphasizing the details of Curry's life and how they interlocked with national, historical, and political happenings between 1937 and 1942, Kendall focuses particularly on the ideological and cultural attitudes that embroiled Curry, newspaper editors, and thousands of Kansans in the mural controversy.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly FALL 1988. Copyright 1998 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.