Year ca. 1938-1940 Artist John Steuart Curry Period Regionalism | Medium oil and egg tempera Created 1940 | |
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Location Kansas State capitol, Topeka, Kansas Dimensions 350 cm × 940 cm (136 in × 372 in) Similar Baptism in Kansas, Tornado Over Kansas, The Flying Codonas, Hogs Killing a Snake, The Mississippi | ||
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Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by John Steuart Curry.
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Description
The mural was commissioned in 1937, and done in egg tempera and oil paint, it is 11' 6" tall and 31 feet long. The Kansas state legislature objected to the mural, and the artist left it unsigned.
Analysis
The mural depicts John Brown in the prelude to the Civil War, during the bleeding Kansas unrest. A study for the mural is in the Spencer Museum.
References
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