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...Riding Hurd...
...always thought that Hurd's technique of egg tempera [Jan. 29] was on the scrambled side, strictly for soft-boiled quacks. But your article and accompanying full-color reproductions have made me an egg-tempera enthusiast forever-sunny side...
...Peter Hurd's postcards: If he lived in the Soviet Union he would no doubt be known as one of the more talented exponents of socialist realism. Perhaps Communism and capitalism have more in common than their diehard adherents think...
...Gallon Tragedian. Where Wyeth identifies with the countryside around Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania and Maine, Hurd loves the desert. He lives without television, owns only riding boots, and eats tortillas by preference. A bilingual Anglo don to the New Mexican Hispanos, Hurd (who once rode to the hounds along the Chesapeake) long ago started a home-grown polo team with his ranch hands. Because of their roughriding, mallet-mashing style of playing, they compete with more posh teams under the name, "the San Patricio Snake Killers...
Western in garb and still gaunt enough to wear his West Point trousers, Hurd loathes the cliches of Hollywood westerns. He is no complacent optimist, recalling the Wyethian admonition that life ends before man can exhaust it. "A painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer...