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...native regional realist of the Southwest, equally prized by Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater, Kurd, now 60, is trying to preserve the look of a fading way of U.S. life. Like his brother-in-law, Andrew Wyeth, he finds all his subject matter, says he, "within five miles of my home." His ranch, The Sentinel, ranges over 2,200 acres where he raises cattle and, in less arid parts, apples, peaches and pears. It is not a big spread by Western standards, but profit is not its true purpose...
...young artist's idol was the lusty illustrator, N. C. Wyeth; one fateful day the grand old man telephoned him. "It was like the Lord Jehovah calling," says Hurd...
...work for me," announced Wyeth, "West Point will seem like child's play." On the train to Wyeth's famous colony at Chadds Ford, Pa., Hurd met his future wife, N. C.'s daughter Henriette, then 16, and now an accomplished artist herself. N. C. taught Moby Dick and Dostoevsky as well as painting. "He was a terrific stickler for detail," recalls Hurd, who became fast friends with Andrew Wyeth during his six-year apprenticeship. "We have in common the ability to identify ourselves with objects," says...
...Peter Hurd and his wife Henriette Wyeth Hurd captured a true likeness. His squinting, almost closed eyes are a most graphic illustration of his myopic, if not blind, views of many of the situations now facing this country...
...painting of the President for this cover is a first for TIME in that it was done in collaboration by two artists: Peter Kurd, who has painted a number of covers for us, and his wife, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, whose portrait of her brother, famed Artist Andrew Wyeth, was our Christmas cover in 1963. The Hurds, who usually paint in separate studios on their ranch at San Patricio, N. Mex., saw the President at the White House, along with Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele and White House Correspondent Hugh Sidey. For 2½ hours, while the President and Steele...