PETER HURD (1904-1984) The Sentinel, Santa Fe Trail.
PETER HURD (1904-1984)
The Sentinel, Santa Fe Trail. Lithograph. 335x500 mm; 13x19½ inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression. 1946.Hurd was born in Roswell, New Mexico, then moved to the Philadelphia area, where he went to school and trained as an artist (he was a student of N. C. Wyeth). In the mid-1930s during the Great Depression, he and his family moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, settling on 40 acres, gradually acquiring more land, developing the 2,200-acre Sentinel Ranch, where he lived and worked most of the remainder of his career. Hurd became a war correspondent with the U.S. Air Force for Life magazine. He made lithographs and several murals (Dallas, Texas) under the auspices of the WPA.
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PETER HURD (1904-1984)
The Sentinel, Santa Fe Trail. Lithograph. 335x500 mm; 13x19½ inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. A very good impression. 1946.Hurd was born in Roswell, New Mexico, then moved to the Philadelphia area, where he went to school and trained as an artist (he was a student of N. C. Wyeth). In the mid-1930s during the Great Depression, he and his family moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, settling on 40 acres, gradually acquiring more land, developing the 2,200-acre Sentinel Ranch, where he lived and worked most of the remainder of his career. Hurd became a war correspondent with the U.S. Air Force for Life magazine. He made lithographs and several murals (Dallas, Texas) under the auspices of the WPA.
