Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): John Steuart Curry / 1931
[Ferargil Galleries, New York, until 1932; sold to MMA]
New York. Ferargil Galleries. "John Steuart Curry," October 12–26, 1931, no catalogue.
New York. National Academy of Design. "One Hundred and Seventh Annual Exhibition," March 27–April 17, 1932, no. 303 (as "Spring Shower," listed for sale).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "American Paintings Since Sargent, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 4–31, 1940, brochure no. 10 (as "Spring Shower").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "National Art Week and the Museum: Paintings by Living Americans," November 25–December 1, 1940, no catalogue.
Augusta, Ga. Augusta Art Club. "Modern American Paintings," December 22, 1940–January 15, 1941, no catalogue.
WPA Art Center, Jacksonville, Fla. "Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–31, 1941, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary Painting in the United States," April 19–27, 1941, no. 37 (as "Spring Shower").
Mexico City. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," June 12–July 9, 1941, unnumbered cat. (p. 40; as "Spring Shower").
Santiago. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," September 6–October 5, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Lima. Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," November 5–30, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Quito. Universidad Central de Ecuador. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," December 1941, unnumbered cat.
Utica, N. Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute. "Picture of the Month," February 1944, no catalogue.
New York Public Library, 67th Street Branch. February 20–June 30, 1945, no catalogue.
New York. Tailored Woman. April 5–19, 1946 [on display in the store window for the MMA Diamond Jubilee Campaign fund].
Akron Art Institute. March 1947.
Kent, Conn. Kent School. "American Painting, 1906–1956," September 12–November 29, 1955, no catalogue.
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Center, School of Art, Syracuse University. "A Retrospective Exhibition of Work by John Steuart Curry," October 7–November 2, 1956, unnum. brochure (as "Spring Shower").
Lawrence. University of Kansas Museum of Art. "John Steuart Curry, 1897–1946," April 13–May 24, 1957, no. 17 (as "Spring Showers").
Iowa. Cedar Rapids Art Center. "John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America," January 10–March 1, 1981, unnumbered cat. (fig. 29).
Wichita State University. "John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America," March 11–29, 1981, unnumbered cat.
Columbia. University of Missouri. "John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America," April 4–30, 1981, unnumbered cat.
Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie," August 17–November 3, 1996, unnumbered cat. (fig. 75).
Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum. "Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie," November 23, 1996–February 25, 1997, unnumbered cat.
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. "John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West," March 7–May 17, 1998, unnumbered cat. (pl. 23; as "Spring Shower").
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West," June 13–August 30, 1998, unnumbered cat.
Kansas City, Mo. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West," October 11, 1998–January 3, 1999, unnumbered cat.
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, unnum. brochure.
"Story of Kansas Countryside." New York Times (October 13, 1931), p. 35, calls it "Spring Shower".
"John Steuart Curry, John Butler: Ferargil Galleries." Art News 30 (October 17, 1931), p. 10, calls it "Spring Shower".
Edward Alden Jewell. "The Metropolitan's New Policy: Recent Acquisition of Fifteen Works by Native Living Artists Symptomatic of Revised Trend—Is the Group Representative?" New York Times (June 26, 1932), p. X6.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art in Review: Metropolitan Buys Oils." New York Times (June 16, 1932), p. 19.
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Notes: Contemporary American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27 (July 1932), p. 181, calls it "Spring Shower" and notes that it is currently on view in the museum's Room of Recent Accessions.
"Metropolitan Buys Nine Paintings by American Artists." Art News 30 (July 16, 1932), p. 4.
Carlyle Burrows. "Many Painters, Varied Modes Seen in Brooklyn Group Show; Nine American Paintings." New York Herald Tribune (June 19, 1932), p. F8, ill.
"Metropolitan Buys 9 Recent U.S. Paintings." New York Herald Tribune (June 16, 1932), p. 14.
"Curry Is Named 'Artist in Residence'; Wisconsin Acts to Aid 'Rural Culture'." New York Times (September 20, 1936), p. N2.
"On the Local Horizons." New York Times (June 21, 1936), p. X7.
"Four American Artists Look at America." Vogue 91 (February 1, 1938), ill. p. 85 (color), call it "Spring Shower over Kansas".
Martha Candler Cheney. Modern Art in America. New York, 1939, pl. 59.
Jeannette Lowe. "The Metropolitan as a Patron of Americans: A Special Art Week Show." Art News 39 (November 23, 1940), p. 10.
"Important Works of John Steuart Curry." Demcourier 11 (April 1941), p. 16, calls it "Spring Shower" and dates it 1930.
"FSCW to Sponsor Exhibit of Art at Jacksonville." Tallahassee Democrat (February 27, 1941), p. 10, calls it "Spring Shower".
Laurence E. Schmeckebier. John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America. New York, 1943, pp. 129–30, 135, fig. 86, calls it "Spring Shower"; notes that "it was painted from sketches of the Heart Ranch"; considers it "the first of Curry's three most important landscapes".
"Picture of the Month." Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin (February 1944), unpaginated, notes that this work is currently on view as the Picture of the Month.
Laurence Schmeckebier. A Retrospective Exhibition of Work by John Steuart Curry. Exh. brochure, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Center, School of Art, Syracuse University. [Syracuse], 1956, unpaginated.
Albert Ten Eyck Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1957, p. 10.
Matthew Baigell. The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930's. New York, 1974, pp. 21, 128, colorpl. 6, calls it "Spring Shower".
Joseph S. Czestochowski. John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America. Exh. cat., Cedar Rapids Art Center. Columbia, Mo., 1981, p. 125, fig. 29.
Joni L. Kinsey. Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City. Washington, 1996, pp. 142, 221 n. 53, fig. 75 (color).
James M. Dennis. "Patricia A. Junker. 'John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West'." Archives of American Art Journal 37, no. 3/4 (1997), p. 33.
Patricia Junker in Patricia Junker Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. New York, 1998, pp. 221–22.
Theodore F. Wolff in Patricia Junker. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. Exh. cat., Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. New York, 1998, pp. 80, 85, colorpl. 23.
Henry Adams in Patricia Junker. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. Exh. cat., Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. New York, 1998, p. 126.
Charles C. Eldredge in Patricia Junker. John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West. Exh. cat., Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. New York, 1998, p. 98.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. 20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, New York State Museum. Albany, 2001, unpaginated.
Lauren Kroiz. "'A Jolly Lark for Amateurs': John Steuart Curry's Pedagogy of Painting." American Art 29 (Spring 2015), p. 42, fig. 11 (color).
Lauren Kroiz. Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era. Oakland, 2018, p. 198, fig. 88 (color).
John Steuart Curry (American, Dunavant, Kansas 1897–1946 Madison, Wisconsin)
1932
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