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June 10, 2009
Charles C. Eldredge John Steuart Curry's "Hoover and the Flood": Painting Modern History Chapel Hill and Augusta: University of North Carolina Press in association with Morris Museum of Art, 2007. 112 pp.; 8 color ills.; 53 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780807830871)
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In 1927, a horrible flood debilitated an enormous swath of land flanking the Mississippi River, reaching from southern Missouri down through Louisiana and into the Delta, causing almost $125 million in damage. Thirteen years later, Life magazine commissioned the Regionalist artist John Steuart Curry to depict a scene in which then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover witnesses and oversees the government’s rescue efforts on the banks of the deluged Mississippi. The magazine reproduced the over five-feet-wide...