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Sorry, we couldn't find anything matching "Curry's earliest ambition was to be an artist. After studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago he worked as an illustrator. He studied for one year in Paris, then the University of Wisconsin-Madison hired him as Artist in Residence in an effort to encourage the people of rural Wisconsin to cultivate their creative spirits. Like his fellow American Regionalist or American Scene painters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, Curry depicted what he knew best: rural and small town Midwestern scenes. Man in nature was a consistent theme of his paintings, murals and prints. Curry often drew on memories of his childhood. His subjects reassuerd the public during the hard times of the Depression.".