John Brown, 1939, Oil on canvas, 69 x 45 in. (175. 3 x 114. 3 cm), Paintings, John Steuart Curry (American, Dunavant, Kansas 1897?1946 Madison, Wisconsin), Throughout the 1930s, Curry, a native of Kansas, was closely associated with Thomas Hart Benton as a member of the artistic movement known as Regionalism. This large painting by Curry is a large study for the artist's mural in the rotunda of the Kansas State Capitol