1) This by was one of several commissioned & published by Fortune Magazine in 1934. They served as for a Fortune article titled “The Great Roadside”

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Compare it to John Steuart's 'Tragic Prelude,' which mythologizes John Brown, and plays into depicitions of revolutionaries and raficals as, in Steuart's own words, "bloothirsty, god-fearing fanatic[s]."

Despite the subject, the portrayal is itself propaganda, of the wrong sort.

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Art Inspiration For Today: “Tornado Over Kansas” by John Steuart Curry (American) 1929, oil on canvas, genre: Realism, Regionalism

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John Steuart Curry, Parade to War, Allegory 1938, Oil on Canvas

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"State Fair"

1929

I love this depicting a circus in it’s in

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"State Fair" (detail)

1929

A full of vivid color, bold brushstrokes & dazzling oil transparencies

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