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Peter Hurd

Peter Hurd (1904 - 1984) was active/lived in New Mexico, Pennsylvania.  Peter Hurd is known for Western landscape, genre and portrait painting, etching.

A regionalist painter known for his landscape, figure and genre paintings of New Mexico, Peter Hurd was especially focused on capturing light and atmosphere.  His preferred medium was tempera on gesso panel, and many of his works depict the panoramic views he saw from his beloved ranch land as well as the people with whom he was most familiar---Indians, Mexicans, and Caucasians.  He was also a muralist and did many lithographs and watercolors.

Hurd was born in Roswell, New Mexico on February 22, 1904 as Harold Hurd, Jr. Called Pete from his early days on, he legally changed his name to Peter in his early twenties.  In 1921, he enrolled as a student at West Point Military Academy in New York state.  Selling a painting to a supervisor, he felt encouraged to become an artist instead of a military career man.

In 1924, he enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and also took private lessons from well-known illustrator N.C. Wyeth.&n   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4179 characters.]  Artist bio

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