Peter Hurd (February 22, 1904 - July 9, 1984) is an American painter who lives and works in San Patricio, New Mexico. He is equally recognized for his western landscape and portrait. He studied under the famous illustrator NC Wyeth and married Wyeth's eldest daughter, Henriette Wyeth, also a master painter.
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Peter originally attended military school before he realized he liked to paint and wanted to pursue it professionally. He attended the New Mexico Military academy in Roswell and half way through West Point when he changed course to follow his true calling. After graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he became a private disciple of N. C. Wyeth. illustrators and famous painters. Hurd works with the children of Wyeth, Andrew and Henriette, who also studied under their father. Hurd worked as Wyeth's assistant at Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, for several years. In 1929, he married Henriette Wyeth. They will have three children, Peter, Carol, and Michael Hurd.
In the mid 30s Hurds moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, settling on 40 hectares that would grow to 2,200 acre Sentinel Ranch . The farms and surrounding areas provide endless material for their work, as their painting careers are developed side by side. Henriette focuses on the study of flowers, portraits of oil, and still life paintings. Peter works to capture the scene and the people who live in it and make it happen. His large egg painting from the local landscape earned him national recognition, and was published in Life magazine. Later, during WW2, LifeIndia magazine sent Peter Hurd around the world as a combat correspondent with the US Air Force. He covered almost all the vast battle lines, creating hundreds of War Sketches ranging from sharp to comic.
Hurd's years with the Air Force had a profound effect on his artwork. He was always a careful and thorough worker when he worked in tempera, but as an embedded war journalist who documented urgent moments or glance, he had to draw faster. He also started using watercolors, which he soon mastered. When he returned to paint the New Mexico landscape, his work was characterized by new freedoms and freedoms, but still featured all the subtle tones of an innate gifted dye.
Some of Peter Hurd's most famous portraits are his neighbors, his family and friends at Sentinel Ranch. He likes to paint people who are deeply related to the land, and always show them outdoors, against the hills and sky. He wrote, "What I like best to paint is those whose lives are spent under the heavens: Men whose clothes, skin and eyes are all conditioned by the wind". His portrait of Jose shows the foreman of Sentinel Ranch amid the back of the land he loves. In what might characterize Hurd, Eve of St. John , Herrera's daughter was bathed in the candlelight he was carrying.
From 1953 to 1954, Hurd and his assistant painted a fresco mural in the rotunda of what became the West Texas Museum (now Holden Hall) at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock. Hurd painted about one fresco per week over a two-year period, with pioneering depictions and influential leaders in West Texas.
Hurd also painted an official portrait of two heads of state, President Lyndon B. Johnson and King Saudi Arabia Faisal. LBJ famously rejected the portrait of Hurd 1967, for an unknown reason. This painting is now part of the National Portrait Gallery collection, at the Smithsonian Institution.
Much of his work, together with the works of Henriette Wyeth, NC Wyeth, and Michael Hurd, can be seen at the Hurd-La Rinconada Gallery in San Patricio, New Mexico.
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Work
Many of Peter Hurd's works are placed in southeastern New Mexico, on his family farms in San Patricio and in the Hondo Valley.
Some of Hurd's works include:
- Eve of St. John
- Oasis
- Gate and Beyond
- Red Pickup
- Late Calls
- The Future Of Those Who Prepare This - was originally located within the Prudential Building in Houston, Texas, but moved to a new public library building in Artesia, NM.
References
External links
- Picture Gallery mural Peter Hurd at Holden Hall rotunda at Texas Tech University
- Peter Hurd's Art Examples at AskART.
- Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth Hurd papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Two Hurd Exhibition Catalog from the Metropolitan Museum Art Museum (fully available online as PDF)
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