Peter Hurd (1904-1984)

Artist Peter Hurd on the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project.

Peter Hurd studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and with N. C. Wyeth. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, and the Chester County Art Association. A number of his works received awards including awards from the Art Institute of Chicago (1937), Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, (1930, 1941, and 1945), and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His works are located in U.S. Post Offices in Big Spring and Dallas, Texas; the La Quinta Municipal Art Gallery in Albuquerque; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the National Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland; the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts in Delaware; and the Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery. He illustrated several books including "Last of the Mohicans" (1926), "Great Stories of the Sea and Ships" (1933), and "Habit of Empire" (1938). He served as a war correspondent for Life Magazine from 1942 to 1945.

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