My Land Is the Southwest: Peter Hurd Letters and Journals

In July, 1921, Peter Hurd was a West Point plebe with dreams of a military destiny. But by the spring of 1924, the young man from Roswell, New Mexico, had abandoned the army as a career and was studying painting in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, under N. C. Wyeth. The experiences that led Hurd to art, and ultimately to fame as a painter of the Southwest, are candidly revealed in this comprehensive autobiographical collection of Hurd's letters and journals. Book jacket.Metzger, Robert is the author of 'My Land Is the Southwest: Peter Hurd Letters and Journals' with ISBN 9780890961568 and ISBN 0890961565.