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This black and white photograph shows the preliminary sketches for the statehouse mural entitled "Kansas Pastoral" by Regionalist artist John Steuart Curry, (1897-1946). Located on the west wall of the archway on the second-floor of the capitol in Topeka, Kansas, the mural illustrates a family and their farm as the night and evening sky merge together on the Kansas prairie.
Date: 1940
Item Number: 214165
Call Number: FK2.1 C.1940c *5
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214165
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Art
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Social History
Built Environment - Building name - Kansas Capitol
Built Environment - Function - Government - Capitol
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Painting
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Monuments and Memorials - Murals
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Curry, John Steuart, (1897-1946)
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Illustrations
Type of Material - Photographs
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