Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promise to Bird. Johnson professed not to like Hurd's TIME portrait of him, complaining that one shoulder seemed elongated and that he had a "squinty" look. However, he appeared to be mollified by the artist's explanation that the narrowed eyes were characteristic of men who rode in the Southwest sun all their days. Rumors spread that Peter Hurd would be selected to do the President's official portrait, but the first Hurd knew about it was when he went to the White House in May 1965 and was introduced by Johnson to South Korean President...
They had met before, but first got to know each other at close range in late 1964, when Peter Hurd and his wife Henriette, sister of Artist Andrew Wyeth, were jointly commissioned to execute Lyndon Johnson's portrait as the Man of the Year for TIME'S Jan. 1, 1965 cover. During a two-hour session, the President talked brilliantly, flitting from subject to subject, while the Kurds, fascinated, tried to concentrate on sketching him. Later Johnson took the Hurds through the White House's private quarters, proudly pointed out a Hurd landscape hung on the wall...
...President," said Hurd, "that's New Mexico...
...little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter, Peter Hurd. Most famous of all: Andrew Wyeth, 49, who last posed for his father in Anthony Adverse...
...background of the scene of Blind Pew was modeled on Wyeth's boyhood home in Needham, Mass., where he himself first read Treasure Island. "He was also a man who felt deeply about the tragedy of life," says Son-in-Law Peter Hurd, pointing out that Blind Pew was modeled on a blind man Wyeth knew. Far from mere illustration, it is a profound study of an anguished soul...