Hogs Killing a Snake

1. The artist; to Associated American Artists; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Ferargil Galleries, John Steuart Curry: Recent Paintings, Oct. 12–25, 1931, no cat.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 128th Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Jan. 29–Mar. 19, 1933, cat. 308, as Hogs Killing a Snake.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings by Artists of the United States, 1934–35, cat. 26, ill.
• Walker Galleries, New York, Opening Exhibition: Paintings by Six Americans, Nov. 12–28, 1935, cat. 9.
• San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art, [Feb. 19–Oct. 29], 1939, cat. 94, ill. p. 51.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in the United States, Selected from the Department of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939, Jan. 1940, cat. 17; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Feb. 1940, Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, Mar. 1940.
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 304, ill., as Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, Nov. 17, 1943–Feb. 6, 1944, cat. 66, ill.
• Milwaukee Art Institute, Art of John Steuart Curry, Sept. 5–Oct. 15, 1946, cat. 19.
• New York, Associated American Artists, John Steuart Curry: Twenty Years of His Art, Mar. 24–Apr. 12, 1947, cat. 6, as Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake.
• Des Moines Art Center, Jan. 30–Feb. 26, 1950.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists associated with the Art Students League of New York, [Mar. 15–May 31], 1951, cat. 68, ill.

• Forbes Watson, The Star Spangled Banner, The Arts 18, 1 (October 1931), ill. p. 54.
• "John Steuart Curry; John Butler; Ferargil Galleries," Art News 30, 3 (October 17, 1931), 10.
• Laurence E. Schmeckebier, John Steuart Curry's Pageant of America (American Artists Group, 1943), 30, 195, 347, fig. 161, 196.
• Life, 1943, 371.
• James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller, Romantic Painting in America, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1943), 45–46, cat. 66, ill. p. 119.
• American Artists Group Monograph no 14, John Steuart Curry, 1945, 2.
• "John Steuart Curry: 1897–1946," Bulletin from Associated American Artists 36 (September 1946), n.p.
• Alexander Eliot, Three Hundred Years of American Painting (Time Incorporated, 1957), 217, ill. p. 215.
• John I. H. Baur, Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art (Harvard University Press, 1951), 90–91, pl. 143.
• John Steuart Curry: A Retrospective Exhibition of his work held in the Kansas State Capitol, Topeka, October 3–November 3, 1970, reprinted from Kansas Quarterly (University Press of Kansas, 1970), 10, 44.
• Lawrence Alloway, "The Recovery of Regionalism: John Steuart Curry," Art in America, 64, 4 (July–August 1976), 71, ill. p. 70.
• Patricia Junker, John Steuart Curry: Inventing the Middle West (Hudson Hills Press in association with the Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1998), 116, 124, 222, 227, pl. 21.

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

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