Sermon from Revelations

Maker Peter Hurd (American, 1904-1984)

Collections

American Print Selections

ClassificationsPRINTS

Daten.d.

Mediumlithograph printed in black on white wove paper

Dimensions10 x 13 1/2 in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm.)

SignedSigned, titled, and numbered at bottom in graphite

InscribedSigned, titled, and numbered at bottom in graphite

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Homer D. Crotty.

Label TextThe 1930s was an era of evangelical revival movements, and Hurd based this print on a meeting he attended on the outskirts of his hometown, Roswell, New Mexico. He may have become interested in the revivalist meetings after seeing prints by George Bellows that lampooned revival leader Billy Sunday. There are striking similarities between Hurd's composition and Bellows's prints (hanging to the left) particularly the preacher's theatrical pose.

Status

Not on view

Object number91.284.35