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John Steuart Curry was born in 1897 in the state of Kansas, in the house that
you see in the painting, "Tornado Over Kansas". When he was 18, he left home
to study art in Kansas City and Chicago. He made a living by illustrating
books and magazines. For eight months he studied in Paris, France. When he
returned from Paris, he moved to Connecticut. There he painted "The Baptism".
People were not painting about this subject at the time, but a wealthy woman
saw it. She liked it so well that she told Curry that she would support him
financially. In the spring of 1932, he traveled with the circus and made many
drawings and did some paintings of circus scenes. Some people in Kansas didn't
like his painting of the tornado. They thought it would make people think that
Kansas was not a good place to live. The state of Kansas asked him to paint a
mural in the state house, but they didn't agree with his ideas for the
pictures, and they asked him to stop painting it. He was very upset and
wouldn't even sign the paintings that he had already finished. Nearly 50 years
later, the legislature apologized and bought the drawings he had done. After
he died in 1946, his paintings were removed from exhibits and people forgot
about him. Years later though, they began to realize that he really had been a
good artist and had a message for the people. His paintings began to be shown
again.
