Word: hurd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hannifin would have even more trouble trying to fly the Hurdybird in the background of the cover. It is the artist's stylized conception of the next generation of aircraft-the 1,800-m.p.h. SST. Peter Hurd painted Tillinghast from life but he painted the plane of the future largely from his own imagination...
...background colors are red, white and blue; the face is pensive and deeply etched. It is the official face of Lyndon Baines Johnson, painted by New Mexico Artist Peter Hurd, 62, for the White House Historical Association and destined to hang in the East Wing. Hurd sketched L.B.J. on the wing, whenever he could, but mainly had to work from photographs. "He's a chair-fighter. You can't get him to sit still," the artist complained. Despite the difficulties, it was a rewarding job. "President Johnson has a very paintable face," said Hurd. "What I would call...
...played Liz Taylor's older sister in National Velvet, Hurd Hatfield's girl friend in Picture of Dorian Gray, Charles Boyer's maid in Gaslight, the wayward Queen in The Three Musketeers, the Other Woman in State of the Union, Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii, Warren Beatty's mother in All Fall Down, and Laurence Harvey's mother in Manchurian Candidate...
...cover background had attended his alma mater, the New Mexico Military Institute. He has a 20-year-old son who before long will face a problem similar to that of this year's graduating class. Working in the faster medium of watercolor rather than his more familiar tempera, Hurd immediately liked his subject, sought to convey the impression of a young man seriously pondering the future-which surely represents the mood of the class...
...Cutler's acting suggest a less muddled answer. For so central a character, he has remarkably few lines and I could draw no coherent impression from what he made of them. Hurd, as Moritz, is very close to an excellent performance; in his wavering voice, he implies perfectly the theatrical nature of the 14-year-old poet cynic. I thought, however, that he used gestures and movement remarkably little for so excitable a character. Miss Kelly's Wendla is a fine performance from beginning...