Hear from painting conservators about their work on Regionalist artist John Steuart Curry’s depiction of a sunrise in Barber County, Kansas. Because of distracting discoloration of the sun—caused by Curry’s mid-1930s experiments mixing materials—the painting was not on display for many years. It is now displayed as the center piece in the current exhibition Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry, open through February 28, 2022 at the Beach Museum of Art.
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Click here to learn more about the exhibition Sunrise over Kansas: John Steuart Curry
Virtual exhibition launch: June 29, 2021
Gallery exhibition: August 24, 2021 – February 28, 2022
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Image: John Steuart Curry (1897 – 1946), Sunrise (Sunrise over Kansas), 1935, mixedmedia on canvas, Friends of the Beach Museum of Art purchase, 1996.18