Henrietta Wyeth at Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pa

Michener Art Museum , Doylestown, PA
January 21 through May six, 2018

— In January 2018, the James A. Michener Art Museum will nowadays Magical & Real: Henriette Wyeth and Peter Hurd, A Retrospective, a major exhibition that explores the work, matrimony, and careers of two remarkable artists who contributed to the canon and dialogue of xx^thursday century American art. Co-organized past the Michener Art Museum and Roswell Museum and Fine art Center, the exhibition includes more than 100 works by Wyeth, Hurd, and family members—including Andrew Wyeth, Henriette's brother, and Due north.C. Wyeth, her father—in the influential Wyeth sphere.  The exhibition will be on view from January 21 through May 6, 2018.

"PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER": Henriette Wyeth, 1937 (painting of her father, artist N.C. Wyeth)

"Very niggling attention has been given to N.C.'due south role in shaping and guiding the artistic evolution and career of his daughters Henriette, Ann, and Carolyn," said Kirsten Yard. Jensen, Ph.D., the Michener's Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator. "Magical & Real is the first exhibition to explore the piece of work and career of N.C.'s eldest child, Henriette, and North.C.'south pupil Peter Hurd, whom Henriette married in 1929. Information technology's also the starting time scholarly projection to probe family archives to mankind out their relationships to other family members, particularly to N.C. and Andrew."

Portrait of Peter Wyeth Hurd (1937) by Henriette Wyeth, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas.

Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997) and Peter Hurd (1904–1984) were important contributors to the arts of both the Philadelphia region and the Southwest. Henriette studied with her father and at the Pennsylvania University of the Fine Arts, where she enrolled at the age of sixteen.

Henriette Wyeth, Beulah Emmett, 1933

She chop-chop earned critical recognition for her luminous and lyrical large-scale canvases of psychological presence and magic, and local recognition for her talent as a portraitist. But when she moved permanently to Roswell, New United mexican states in 1940 (and her studio became Andrew'due south), she was largely forgotten.

Peter Hurd, The Escape of Baton the Kid, 1965

Peter Hurd, a native of Roswell, became a educatee of North.C. Wyeth'southward in 1924. While studying with N.C., he met Henriette. Hurd was a pregnant artistic influence in the development of N.C. and Andrew's practice;  he introduced them to tempera, which became Andrew's medium of choice. Hurd painted a number of Pennsylvania landscapes, but it is the impressive vistas, stark rolling hills, and dramatic low-cal of the Southwest for which he is best known.

Peter Hurd, Eve of Saint John,1960

"This exhibition engages the tensions between eastern and western arts communities, tensions that permanently marked the lives and careers of Hurd and Wyeth," said Jensen. "Henriette'south piece of work changed substantially in both style and tone post-obit their move to New Mexico. Magical & Real will broaden the awareness of the entire scope of the couple'southward work in the regions with which they are nearly closely associated."

Magical & Real includes more than than 100 works, most of which have been in private collections since they were created and thus have not been seen in public. Afterwards being on view at the Michener Art Museum, the exhibition volition travel to Roswell, where it will exist on brandish from June fifteen to September 16, 2018. Co-curated past Jensen and Sara Woodbury, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Roswell, it will be accompanied by a richly illustrated scholarly catalogue, with essays by Jensen and Woodbury too every bit additional contributors.

"In addition to the works coming from private collections, several pieces in the exhibition come from the Roswell Museum and Art Center itself, so this is a great opportunity to share our Hurd and Wyeth drove with new audiences," said Woodbury.

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