Analysis of John Steuart Curry’s Wisconsin Landscape
Wisconsin Landscape is an oil painting painted between 1938 -1939 of a farm-home in Wisconsin and the beautiful nature surrounding it. The perspective is from up on a hill looking down on the quiet landscape mottled with cows and sheep. We can see for miles from the heaps of hay in the foreground to the blue rolling hills in the distance. Thick clouds dominate the top half of the painting with a blanket of green and yellow fields below. It is a bold yet calming image with powerful strokes and rich recurring shapes of color. All of the elements are sewn together by the use of a grid and horizontal divisions. It is evident that the artist took a very structural and mathematical approach in laying out the scene, but in no way does this affect the overall natural beauty of the landscape.
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