The Bunk House (From the Bunkhouse)

 

Peter Hurd

  1904 - 1984

1938  

lithograph 

12 7/8 x 9 7/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

50 

titled and editioned in pencil 

Meigs 52 (Plate 52) 

antique-white wove Arches, watermarked "France" 

published 

artist and Associated American Artists 

CHVE101 

SOLD

Peter Hurd, reflecting on the background of this image: "Sometime in the middle thirties I was painting an elderly cattleman named Jesse Jenkins. I stayed in the bunkhouse with the cowboys and made a drawing of one of them sitting in the doorway, looking out into the starlit night. My subject was a likeable, good looking boy named Leet Forbis. Leet was killed in Italy shortly after our Fifth Army began its advance northward to recaputer Rome. A German mine blew up the jeep in which he was riding."