Noted: In September 1936, Curry was invited to return to the Midwest (on view are a telegram offering him the job and another one with his acquiescence) by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and become artist-in-residence for $4,000 a year, a then-handsome sum, especially considering that he had no set teaching duties or other responsibilities. Perhaps most interesting, he was hired to serve not in the art department but in the college of agriculture, with the goal of using art as an outreach tool to the state?s farming community.
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