A minister baptizes a young woman in a wooden tub while a large crowd watches on a farm.

Paintings

Baptism in Kansas

1928

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 40 1/4 × 50 1/4 in. (102.2 × 127.6 cm)
Accession number
31.159
Acquired
1931
Credit line
Gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
Department
collection

About this work

John Steuart Curry, Baptism in Kansas, 1928. Oil on canvas, overall: 40 1/4 × 50 1/4 in. (102.2 × 127.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 31.159

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