Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Signed) Robert K. Ahrens '71 Gordon B. Hurd '69 Donald R. Leopold '71 William B. Patterson '71 Jamie Plunkett '71 Michael I. Smith '72 Jon Stolzenberg...
...only U.S. President not included -at his request-is Lyndon Johnson. However, the gallery owns the portrait of him commissioned from Peter Hurd and then rejected by Johnson as "the ugliest thing I ever saw." It will go on view in February...
After Lyndon Johnson called Peter Kurd's portrait of him "the ugliest thing I ever saw," most people assumed that the Johnsons and the Hurds had reached a parting of the artistic ways. Not so. To celebrate their last anniversary, L.B.J. gave Lady Bird a painting by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, 60, Peter's wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously...
...Toby Hurd manages to extend one joke into a funny performance; Josh Rubins contracts a wealth of jokes into something not funny at all, except for a fine "Be Like the Bluebird...
...choir." Smiling stiffly, the President shook hands with Lewis, mumbled "Thank you" and departed. Titillated by the event, Washington reporters in vented a slew of mock news bulletins and tacked them to a White House bulletin board. "President Johnson," said one, "announced late Sunday he has commissioned Artist Peter Hurd to paint a portrait of the Rev. C. P. Lewis." Hurd, of course, is the painter whose portrait of the President was rejected by L.B.J. as "the ugliest thing I ever saw." Improving on the script, Johnson last week chose as his 33rd wedding anniversary gift to Lady Bird...