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Illustrations
1921-1926, 1940-1948

While away at the American Art Institute of Chicago in 1917 Curry wrote home to his parents about his decision to study illustration. In his letter home he notes Harvey Dunn is “making the illustrators of today .” It is around this time Curry took a strong interest in Harvey Dunn and hoped to one day study under him. In 1920 Curry finally meets Dunn, and while he did not become one of Dunn’s students, Dunn became a mentor of sorts for Curry, helping him further his illustration education and career. Curry began publishing illustrations in 1921 and continued through 1926 at which point he took a hiatus from illustration for the next 24 years writing “Came to NY to be an illustrator. Was not a brilliant success. Went to Paris and learned something from M. Schoukhareff of the Russian Academy. Learned something, also, from the Louvre and have been trying since to carry out my ideas of how an American should paint .”

In 1940 John Curry returned to making illustrations and continued contributing to this field up until his death in 1946. His last illustrations can be found in John Brown’s Body: A Poem by Stephen Vincent Benét, published by Limited Editions Club in 1948.

Curry's early career consisted mainly of magazine illustrations and his later career in illustration consisted of books.

Magazines
This is a working list.
 * Boy's Life
 * St. Nicholas Magazine
 * Country Gentleman
 * The Saturday Evening Post

Books
In chronological order by publishing date. This is a working list.
 * Cooper, James Fenimore. The Prairie. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1940.
 * Lincoln, Abraham, and Carl Van Doren. Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln.New York: Heritage Press, 1942.
 * O’Hara, Mary. My Friend Flicka. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941.
 * O’Hara, Mary. Thunderhead. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1943.
 * Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. New York: Heritage Press, 1944.
 * Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Illustrated Modern Library, 1944.
 * Benet, Stephen Vincent. John Brown’s Body: A Poem. New York: Heritage Press, 1948.