Peter Hurd

Peter Hurd (b. February 22, 1904, Roswell, New Mexico - d. July 9, 1984, Roswell, New Mexico) was an American painter known for his portraits and western landscapes. Hurd studied in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania under the noted illustrator N.C. Wyeth and later married the painter's eldest daughter, Henriette Wyeth, who was also an accomplished painter. During World War II, Hurd worked for Life magazine as a war correspondent attached to the US Air Force. He was commissioned to paint President Lyndon B. Johnson’s official White House portrait in 1967, but Johnson rejected the finished painting. Hurd kept the work and donated it to the National Portrait Gallery in 1968.