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The Country Gentleman
In 1941, John Steuart Curry was commissioned by the Associated American Artists to create a painting about tobacco for an illustration in the American agricultural magazine, The Country Gentleman.

Lucky Strike Ads
Along with other regional artists, Curry was commissioned to create advertisements for a Lucky Strike ad campaign that spanned from 1942 to 1944. This campaign associated Luckies with the down-home, folksy look of regional art. The American Tobacco Company did not capitalize on the war or use military themes when advertising for their cigarettes.

Curry only made two Lucky Strike tobacco ads:
 * "Grading a Pile of Tobacco After Curing"- The first Lucky Strike ad features a woman wearing a headscarf sorting tobacco leaves.
 * "Grading the Lighter Leaf"- This ad depicts a farmer sorting and examining tobacco leaves inside a barn.

There are four original primary sketches of ideas and the layouts for these Lucky Strike ads in the archives located at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University.