Henriette Wyeth

Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings.

After she and artist Peter Hurd married, they moved to San Patricio, New Mexico, in the mid-1930s and raised their three children on a ranch there.

[4] She grew up on the family farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and attended local Quaker schools.

She began formal art lessons with her father at age 11, making charcoal studies and geometric shapes.

A child prodigy,[7] at age 13 Wyeth was enrolled in the Normal Arts School in Boston, Massachusetts.

[7] Soon after her student years, Hurd exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy (1927, 1936–44), where she was awarded the 1937 Mary Smith Prize for a portrait of her son Peter.

Hurd and Wyeth were both commissioned to produce a cover portrait of President Lyndon B. Johnson for Time's "Man of the Year" issue.

[10] At age 21, in 1929 Wyeth married artist Peter Hurd, a fellow student at the Pennsylvania Academy and her father's apprentice.

[7] According to her biography on the Wyeth Hurd Gallery website, she was "considered by many art scholars to be one of the great women painters of the 20th century".