The Rainy Season
Peter Hurd
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
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. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Rainy Season
Date
1940
Medium
Egg tempera on masonite
Classification
Dimensions
34 1/2 x 47 1/4 in. (87.6 x 120 cm)
Signatures
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."
Credit Line
Gift of Roy R. Neuberger
Accession Number
45.135
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