Our Good Earth...Keep It Ours, John Steuart Curry

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John Steuart Curry, artist
1897–1946
Our Good Earth...Keep It Ours, 1942
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: photomechanical print; linen
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 61.91 x 130.18 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 3/8 x 51 1/4 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 63 7/8 x 43 7/8 x 2 1/2 in
Credit line: Lent by KSU, Beach Museum of Art, acquisition made possible with funds provided by the Friends of the Art Museum, 1996.88
Accession number: EL2006.002
Not on display
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Exhibition Label:
"John Steuart Curry: Agrarian Allegories," Aug-2006, Kate Meyer
As propaganda for the Department of the Treasury during the Second World War, Curry’s Our Good Earth poster emphasized the role of the farmer in the preservation of American prosperity through agriculture. The threat implicit in the continued title - …Keep It Ours - suggests the act of buying war bonds would aid not only U.S. troops, but presumably help protect American soil and even an American way of life.

Exhibitions

John Steuart Curry: Agrarian Allegories
Kate Meyer, curator
2006