Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake by John Steuart Curry

~ JezzieG
Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake by John Steuart Curry

Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake
c. 1930
American Realism
Oil on canvas
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Curry is best known for his socially and historically located canvases and murals of actual people, communities, and geographies. However, ‘Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake’ is a move into a rarefied space. With its violent and verdant composition centered around a dark hole in the trunk of the tree, the painting communicates a sense of vitality within the natural world’s forces with a pounding rhythm and energy celebrating the pulse and cycle of life and death

John Steuart Curry 1897-1946

John Steuart Curry
American Realism, American Regionalism
Born: 14 November 1897, Kansas, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 19 August 1946, Wisconsin, USA

Curry was a painter noted for his depictions of rural life in his home state of Kansas. Alongside Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, Curry was hailed as one of the three great painters of American Regionalism of the early 20th century

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.