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John Steuart Curry
Parade to War, Allegory, 1938
Parade to War, Allegory was painted in the wake of the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II (1939-1945). John Steuart Curry turns the pageantry of a parade into a scene of foreboding and dread, most obviously disclosed in the skeletal faces of the young soldiers. The anxiety and sorrow of the two women in the foreground contrast with the hopeful innocence of the central striding couple and the young boys gathering streamers. Typical of Curry's work, this painting represents the isolationist attitudes and growing disillusionment expressed by an increasing number of Americans in the late 1930s. |