Art, literature & history
The Line Storm
1935
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 25 × 35.3 cm (9 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 47.7 cm (13 13/16 × 18 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.283
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Public domain (WikiArt label)License details
John Steuart Curry. The Line Storm. Image: WikiArt. Public domain (WikiArt label). Proportionally resized and JPEG compressed; no crop.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Line Storm — John Steuart Curry. 1935.
Medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 25 × 35.3 cm (9 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 47.7 cm (13 13/16 × 18 13/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Like fellow Regionalists Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry received his artistic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is particularly well known for paintings of his home state of Kansas, as well as for his murals and lithographs, in which he sought to capture the drama of midwestern life, from the violence of nature to the struggles of humanity.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.