My first Magazine 1930's quello verissimo | Page 9

Hogs Killing a Snake – John Steuart Curry,
about 1930
Though there was a great movement towards nature-based art, the majority
of artists in 1930s tended to focus on human subjects and activities, like
farming. But John Steuart Curry decided to represent animals. Here we can
see some hogs killing a snake in front of an apple tree: this is a religious
allegory, we are in the Garden of Eden.