Artist:
Peter Hurd
(American, 1904 - 1984)
Sitter:
Don Patricio Trujillo
The Sheepherder
Medium: Tempera on panel
Date: 1936
Dimensions:
14 3/16 × 14 5/16 in. (36 × 36.4 cm)
Accession number: 85.10.79
Copyright: © artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Label Copy:
In this somber tempera painting, Peter Hurd portrays Don Patricio Trujillo, a shepherd who spent his later years roaming the Hondo Valley in New Mexico and occasionally posing for Hurd. Although he depicted Trujillo in a lithograph as well, only the painting could capture the man’s silvery white beard that so impressed Hurd. Portraying him as a humble shepherd in this portrait, Hurd must have been fascinated by Trujillo’s youth as a cowboy working on the Chisum Ranch south of Roswell in the days of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
In this somber tempera painting, Peter Hurd portrays Don Patricio Trujillo, a shepherd who spent his later years roaming the Hondo Valley in New Mexico and occasionally posing for Hurd. Although he depicted Trujillo in a lithograph as well, only the painting could capture the man’s silvery white beard that so impressed Hurd. Portraying him as a humble shepherd in this portrait, Hurd must have been fascinated by Trujillo’s youth as a cowboy working on the Chisum Ranch south of Roswell in the days of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War.
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