X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Peter Hurd


Peter Hurd

Many of Peter Hurd's works are set in Southeastern New Mexico, on his family's ranch in San Patricio and in the Hondo Valley.

From 1953 to 1954, Hurd, assisted by his protégés Manuel Acosta and John Meigs as well as his wife Henriette, painted a fresco mural in the rotunda of what was then the West Texas Museum (now Holden Hall) at Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech University) in Lubbock.

One panel, entitled "The Chroniclers", depicts historian J. Evetts Haley, William Curry Holden, Tom Lea, and John A. Lomax gathered around a blazing campfire.



see also