Artist:
Peter Hurd
(American, 1904 - 1984)
A Wet Night at the Roundup (Round-up Bar)
Medium: Egg tempera on Gesso panel
Date: 1973
Dimensions:
20 × 26 1/2 in. (50.8 × 67.3 cm)
Accession number: 96.8.1
Copyright: © artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Label Copy:
In addition to painting landscapes and portraits, Peter Hurd was drawn to portraying the local cultural scene, here capturing a quiet, desolate bar and hotel. Beginning in the 1950s, Hurd’s approach to tempera changed and he experimented with thinner, looser washes influenced by his work in watercolor. In this rainy night scene, he renders the transient effects of light and color with an Impressionistic luminosity.
Curatorial RemarksExhibition History: January 18-May 18, 1975 Brandywine River Museum exhibition "Brandywine West"