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. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 45.135.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

The Rainy Season

Date

1940

Medium

Egg tempera on masonite

Classification

Painting

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

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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