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The Rainy Season
Peter Hurd
American Art
Born in remote Roswell, New Mexico, Peter Hurd established his home at Sentinel Ranch, in nearby San Patricio, by 1940 and devoted himself to painting the area’s distinctive landscape. Hurd had been experimenting with the medium seen here—egg tempera (an egg-based, water-soluble paint mixture) applied to gesso-coated panels—since the early 1930s. Derived from Italian Renaissance practice, the method allowed him to achieve a brilliancy of color and “flatness” that he believed were otherwise attainable only with watercolors.
MEDIUM
Egg tempera on masonite
DATES
1940
DIMENSIONS
34 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. (87.6 x 120 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right: "Peter Hurd"
INSCRIPTIONS
Inscribed verso top: "The Rainy Season / Painted in Egg Tempera / by Peter Hurd / AUGUST 1940 / AT Sentinel Ranch, San Patricio / N. Mex."
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
45.135
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Roy R. Neuberger
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Peter Hurd (American, 1904–1984). The Rainy Season, 1940. Egg tempera on masonite, 34 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. (87.6 x 120 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Roy R. Neuberger, 45.135. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 45.135.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 45.135.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
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