Coyotes Stealing a Pig
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 24.8 x 38.2 cm (9 3/4 x 15 1/16 in.) sheet: 36.4 x 48.2 cm (14 5/16 x 19 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner
Accession Number
1991.116.30
Art Historical Context
John Steuart Curry’s *Coyotes Stealing a Pig* (1927) captures a tense moment of rural drama through the bold contrasts of a black lithograph. Created on wove paper, the print’s stark lines and dynamic composition highlight the animals’ stealthy movement as they carry off their prize, distilling the unpredictable realities of farm life into a single, vivid scene. Curry, a central figure in American Regionalism alongside artists like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, often drew on his Kansas upbringing to celebrate—and sometimes dramatize—the rhythms of the Midwest. As a lithograph, the work r...