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Kansas State University
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The Surgeon

Artist (United States, 1897 - 1946)
Dateca. 1945
MediumChalk (or pastel) with graphite on paper
DimensionsIMAGE: 17 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (438.1 x 333.4 mm)
SHEET: 17 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. (438.1 x 349.2 mm)
Object TypeDrawings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, bequest of Kathleen G. Curry
Object number2002.1223
On View
Not on view
Description
During World War II, under the patronage of pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories, John Steuart Curry spent time at Camp Barkeley, an Army training facility near Abilene, Texas. He created a series of images of medical exercises at the fort that the Chicago drug company reproduced in its magazine and sent on tour.

Kansas State University offers several degrees for pre-health students, including kinesiology, nutrition and health sciences, biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. Interested students can join the Pre-Med club.
Exhibitions
Title unknown (fallen man)
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1927
2002.1310
Disaster (Nurse/Plane Crash)
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1940
2002.1496
School Nurse
Margo Kren
1980
2016.147
John Steuart Curry, Roadside Camp, 1934, watercolor, pastel, and graphite, 17 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.,…
John Steuart Curry
1934
2019.27
Young Girl #1
John Steuart Curry
1943
2002.767
Birds of Passage
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1943
2002.780
"Pioneers Oh Pioneers"
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1943
2002.800
Study for Wildcat Attacks Heifer
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1941
2002.844
Young Girl #4
John Steuart Curry
1943
2002.866
The Lovers
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1940
2002.924
Mahtoree's Lodge
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1940
2002.933
Sketch of Mahtoree's Lodge
John Steuart Curry
ca. 1940
2002.935