Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the United Nations or with the general situation in Europe ... I am not contented with myself . . . with the development of my character . . . and with my literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
...About Town. Eventually, said Roswell's Record, "the home town of Hurd will have the greatest collection of Hurd productions in the country. A generation from now, young persons will view his work and be told that the man who painted the pictures was one time a kid about town the same as they...
...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
...wood panels, Hurd confines himself to precise portraits of people and places, dramatized by isolated figures, long shadows and cold, gleaming colors. The paintings that tell of the barren hills and washes, the deserts and clear bright light of New Mexico are as knowing and sincere as an honest man's praise of his own family...
Burra's fifth one-man show, opening in London's Leicester Galleries last week. made suitably weird use of such source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...