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John Brown
Artist
Curry, John Steuart
(1897 - 1946)
Date1939
Mediumlithograph on paper
Dimensionsimage: 16 × 11 in. (40.6 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 18 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (47 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 18 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (47 × 34.3 cm)
ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL
Credit LineClara S. Peck Fund
Object number2017.20.2
Descriptionvertical, rectangular portrait of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859), with body facing forward, head turned to left and beard being blown to left; hair on top of head standing upward; wears coat with belt and ammunition belt across torso; sword on right side and ammunition pouch on left; face of African-American looking up towards Brown at bottom right; tornado in stormy sky at back left; wagon train, heading left, behind BrownCollections
- Early Modernism and Pre-War Art
Not on view