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Kansas Pasture
Artist
John Steuart Curry
(United States, 1897 - 1946)
Dateca. 1936
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSUPPORT: 35 x 40 in. (88.9 x 101.6 cm)
FRAME: 46 x 50 in. (116.8 x 127 cm)
FRAME: 46 x 50 in. (116.8 x 127 cm)
Object TypePaintings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, acquisition made possible by the Max Miller Art Acquisition and Conservation Fund; Joann Goldstein in memory of Jack Goldstein and Eleanor "Elle" Griffith Stolzer; Dan and Beth Bird; Russell Clay Harvey and Patricia McGivern; and Friends of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Object number2013.191
On View
On view• The setting of this painting is believed to be the Gypsum Hills in Barber County, Kansas, where Curry visited relatives on the Heart Ranch during the 1930s.
• Barber County is in South Central Kansas near the Oklahoma border.
• The hills, buttes, and mesas of the Gypsum Hills, sometimes called the Gyp Hills or Red Hills, are so-called because they contain layers of brick-red shale, siltstones, and sandstones, as well as grayish dolomite and gypsum.
• During the drought of the 1930s, Kansas ranchers preferred Hereford cattle because they easily converted native grasses into beef and tolerated heat.
• Barber County is in South Central Kansas near the Oklahoma border.
• The hills, buttes, and mesas of the Gypsum Hills, sometimes called the Gyp Hills or Red Hills, are so-called because they contain layers of brick-red shale, siltstones, and sandstones, as well as grayish dolomite and gypsum.
• During the drought of the 1930s, Kansas ranchers preferred Hereford cattle because they easily converted native grasses into beef and tolerated heat.
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