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My Land is the Southwest, Peter Hurd Letters and Journals

Hurd, Peter (Metzger, Robert, Editor))

College Station, (1983): Texas A & M University Press. First Edition. Octavo. Item #028996

408 pp. Edited by Robert Metzger. Introduction by Paul Horgan and illustrated with several black and white photographic images of Hurd. Hurd was a student of N.C. Wyeth. This book spans fifty years of Hurd's life. It also describes his travels overseas as an artist-correspondent for Life Magazine, his numerous murals, and his famous portraits of King Faisal and President Lyndon Johnson. A fine copy bound in mustard cloth, spine lettering white and black, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket with fading to spine and just a bit of rubbing to rear panel. Very nice.

Price: $55.00