Henriette Wyeth Hurd was an American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings.
17 Facts About Henriette Wyeth
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Henriette Wyeth was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an artistic family.
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Andrew Henriette Wyeth became the most well-known artist of this family.
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Henriette Wyeth contracted polio at age 3, which altered her health and use of her right hand.
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Henriette Wyeth grew up on the family farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and attended local Quaker schools.
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Henriette Wyeth began formal art lessons with her father at age 11, making charcoal studies and geometric shapes.
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Henriette Wyeth's work spanned portraits of adults and children, still lifes, and floral landscapes.
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Henriette Wyeth painted for Helen Hayes, Paulette Goddard, and Mrs John D Rockefeler III, for which she earned a lasting celebrity.
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Hurd and Wyeth were both commissioned to produce a cover portrait of President Lyndon B Johnson for Time "Man of the Year" issue.
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Henriette Wyeth received awards for her work, including the Governor's Award in New Mexico and a Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.
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At age 21, in 1929 Henriette Wyeth married artist Peter Hurd, a fellow student at the Pennsylvania Academy and her father's apprentice.
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Henriette Wyeth's father was not happy when they left the Pennsylvania area.
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Henriette Wyeth did continue to paint for the rest of her life and was inspired by the landscape.
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Henriette Wyeth criticized contemporary television and feminism, and said that modern society had "blunted" children.
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Henriette Wyeth died in her Roswell, New Mexico home-studio from complications from pneumonia in April 1997.
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Henriette Wyeth's work has been exhibited at such notable institution as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Institute of Chicago and New Mexico's Roswell Museum of Art.
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Henriette Wyeth's work has been included in a number of posthumous exhibitions:.