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This black and white photograph shows the preliminary sketch for a portion of the statehouse mural entitled "Tragic Prelude" by Regionalist artist John Steuart Curry, (1897-1946). Located north of the archway on the second-floor of the capitol in Topeka, Kansas, the mural illustrates a bison hunter with a slain bison and thundering herds of bison in the background. On the south side of the archway, Coronado and Padre Padilla, the Franciscan missionary, look across the Kingdom of Quivira as buzzards loom overhead. The mural's dimensions are 22 feet long and 11 1/2 feet high.
Date: 1940
Item Number: 214198
Call Number: FK2.1 C.1940c *8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 214198
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Art
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Social History
Built Environment - Function - Government - Capitol
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Artists
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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