José Herrera
Framed: 53 3/8 × 52 × 1 1/4 inches (135.57 × 132.08 × 3.18 cm)
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1938 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 2–December 11, 1938, no. 65.
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Peter Hurd, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Gallery, New York, April 11–29, 1939, no. 22 (as Portrait).
Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, May 17–June 17, 1945, unnumbered.
The Friends of Art in Retrospect, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO, December 1953, no cat.
Paintings Loaned by the Friends of Art Collection, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Wichita Art Museum, KS, April 22–May 6, 1956, no cat.
Kansas Free Fair, Topeka, September 8–13, 1956, no cat.
Distinguished Americans, Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI, September 30–October 28, 1956, no cat.
Peter Hurd Retrospective Exhibition, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX, October 21, 1964–February 22, 1965 (traveled), unnumbered.
Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, January 16–February 22, 1965, no cat.
Peter Hurd, Oklahoma Museum of Art at Red Ridge, Oklahoma City, November 24–December 31, 1968, no. 2.
70th Annual Midwest Art Exhibition, Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS, March 30–April 27, 1969, no cat.
The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, October 10–November 28, 1971, no. 89.
Days on the Range: Artists in the American West, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 5–March 5, 1972, no. 35 (as Portrait of Jose Herrera).
Brandywine West, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, January 18–May 18, 1975, no cat.
Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA, January 15–May 22, 1977, no. 43 (as Portrait of Jose).
Peter Hurd: Insight to a Painter, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, March 25–August 21, 1983 (traveled), no. 11.
To (Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Gallery, New York, 1939);
To Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Fizzell, Kansas City, MO, 1939;
To The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939.
Edward Alden Jewell, “In the Realm of Art: Big All-American Group Show,” New York Times, November 6, 1938, sec. 9, 9.
New York Times, November 6,1938, Rotogravure sec., unpaginated.
1938 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1938), unpaginated.
Scribner’s Magazine 105 (March 1939), cover (as Portrait of a Cowhand).
Carlyle Burrows, “Notes and Comment on Events in Art: Peter Hurd,” New York Herald Tribune, April 16, 1939, sec. 6, 5.
Peter Hurd, “Painter of New Mexico,” Magazine of Art 32 (July 1939), 391.
“Debate over Art Gift,” Kansas City Star, December 9, 1939, 12 (as Portrait of Jose Herrera).
“Friends Give Fine Works by Hurd and Speicher to Kansas City,” Art Digest 14 (December 15, 1939), 15 (as Portrait of José Herrera).
Forbes Watson, American Painting Today (Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Arts, 1939), 115.
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Peter Hurd, exh. cat. (New York: Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan Gallery, 1939), unpaginated (as Portrait).
“‘Pigtails’ by Speicher Masterpiece of Month,” Kansas City Journal-Post, January 2, 1940, 13 (as Portrait of Jose Herrera).
“Portrait of José Herrera,” Kansas City Star, January 7, 1940, Pictorial sec., 4.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts: Founders and Benefactors (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1940), 22 (as Portrait).
Helen Clement, “Art and Artists: Contemporary Paintings at Legion, May 17–June 17,” Oakland (CA) Tribune, May 27, 1945, 2C.
Contemporary American Painting, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1945), unpaginated.
“Modern Painters Are Aided by the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, April 13, 1947, 6D, 9D (as The Cowboy).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd. ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 203 (as Portrait of José Herrera).
Winifred Shields, “A Special Collection of Works Is Growing at Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star, May 19, 1950, 28.
Peter Hurd: Portfolio of Landscapes and Portraits (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1950), unpaginated.
J. Kenner Agnew, ed., Prose and Poetry Adventures (Syracuse, N.Y.: L. W. Singer Company, 1951), 616–17.
“Page for a Painting,” Kansas City Times, February 29, 1952, 4 (as Portrait of Hose Herrera).
“Public Favorites 9,” Time, March 3,
1952, 61.
Dorothea Pellett, “Fair Displays Work of Eminent Artists,” Daily Capital (Topeka, KS), September 9, 1956, 17A.
Bob Sanford, “A Panoramic Look at American Art,” Kansas City Times, November 6, 1957, 32 (as Portrait of Jose Herrera).
Alexander Eliot, Three Hundred Years of American Painting (New York: Time, 1957), 210–11.
“Exhibition Reflects Growing Interest of Kansas Citians in Contemporary Art,” Kansas City Star, January 9, 1959, 9.
Home and Highway Magazine 8 (April 1959), 40, cover.
Alexander Eliot, Art of Our Time—1950–1960 (New York: Omicron, 1959), unpaginated.
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 150, 256.
P. D. F., “Reviews: San Francisco,” Artforum 3 (March 1965), 43.
Paul Horgan, Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), unpaginated (as Portrait of Jose).
Mary Ellen Chase, Values in Literature (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 116.
Peter Hurd, exh. cat. (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Museum of Art at Red Ridge, 1968), unpaginated.
“The News Clock, Birger-Sandzen Features Hurd,” Hutchinson (KS) News, April 19, 1969, unpaginated (as Portrait of José Herrera).
Ideas and Patterns in Literature 2 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970), 222.
The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries, exh. cat. (Omaha, Neb.: Joslyn Art Museum, 1971), 64.
Days on the Range: Artists in the American West, exh. cat. (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1972), 21, 65 (as Portrait of Jose Herrera).
Koch: Equipment and Supplies for Packers and Processors General Catalogue Number 191, October 1972, 3, cover.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 204, 252.
Martha Hutson, “Peter Hurd, Outside the Stream: Interview,” American Art Review 3 (March–April 1976), 102, 108n12.
Paul Horgan, Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life, exh. cat. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965; repr., Chadds Ford, Pa.: Brandywine River Museum, 1977), unpaginated (as Portrait of Jose).
Susanne Sentell Shepherd, “American Scene Painting: The Rise of Regionalism,” (master’s thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1979), 45–46.
Impact Albuquerque Journal Magazine, October 25, 1983, 7, cover.
Peter Hurd: Insight to a Painter, exh. cat. (Phoenix, Ariz.: Phoenix Art Museum, 1983), 28, 33, 44, cover.
Peter Hurd, My Land Is the Southwest: Peter Hurd Letters and Journals, ed. Robert Metzger (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1983), 178n3, 201–2, 206.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 152.
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 2:
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 182.
