Wilson Hurley, Signed (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hurley, Wilson (illustrator). Cover is in good condition, save for rubbing/yellowing with age and minimal edge wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Artist has signed half-title page. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 179/250 [signed]: Wm. F. Reese Mary N. Balcomb/. With the signed painting of a dog (c) 1984. [Partial Publisher's colophon]: Design and Production: Amie Cole Balcomb, Seattle; Printing: Paragon Press, Salt Lake City; Binding: Hiller Industries, Salt Lake City; Typeface: ITC Garamond Book; Text Paper: S. D. Warren's Cameo Gloss 100lb. Book; Calligraphy: Anne Timlick; Photography: Mike Walmsey & William F. Reese; Amie C. Balcomb; Thomas Nygard; Bill Abbey, Renee Tewell; Cheryl Rossi. Oblong, 11 ¼ in. x 9 5/8 in., color frontispiece with signed limitation statement on the half-title. [i]-xxii, pp. 1-151 + colophon. Illustrated with numerous, high-quality color photo-reproductions of Wm. F. Reese paintings, black & white reproductions of drawings, and photographs. Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index. Dark blue cloth spine and sides, and gray cloth, with the artist's signature stamped in silver on the spine and front cover. In a sturdy, gray cloth covered slipcase, which has a rectangular section cut out on one side, and with a plastic insert window, to form a frame for displaying the original painting, which is contained in a dark blue, cloth covered binder, which is slipped in the front of the book, in the slipcase, for display. The painting shows a standing brown and white dog, wearing a collar and holding something in its mouth, against a tan, green-gray and yellow-brown background. The dog is one of the hounds from the fox hunt down in Tacoma Wa. The club is called WOODBROOK. A very scarce item. Weight: 4 ¼ lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Condition: Good. Cloth bound book and video disk in slipcase. Both signed by the artist as one of 100 copies. Edge of slipcase with minor defects.Wilson Hurley (American, 1924-2008).Biography:Wilson Hurley was a man of many talents and interests. A graduate of West Point, he was an engineer and pilot, and later a successful attorney in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He moved with his family to Santa Fe as a boy, and with his mother's encouragement, he began to develop his talent as a painter under the tutelage of local artist Theodore Van Soelen. Although art was an important and constant part of his life, he did not turn to painting as a way of making a living until he was 40 years old. As he did with all of his pursuits, Hurley came to excel at his newly chosen profession. He painted in the grand tradition of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, but with a highly modern and scientific perspective. His canvases, often in large scale, bring the viewer up close to the beauty of the western landscape in great detail. He has garnered numerous awards, including the Prix de West purchase prize at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and his work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, New York; the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana; and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. He was also presented with a lifetime achievement by the Albuquerque Museum of Art. His greatest artistic achievement was the creation of five mammoth murals at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. His most frequent subject was the New Mexico landscape near his Albuquerque home, and here he presents the beauty of that scene with brilliant light and confident brush strokes. A highly successful attorney and partner in his law firm, Hurley decided to leave that career after arranging the final affairs for a client with a terminal illness. Toward the end of their association, the client asked Hurley what he would do if he were faced with such an illness. As Hurley describes the incident, he said that the question prompted him to think about what he truly wanted to do. His answer was that he would like to find a studio with good north light and complete one good painting. He far exceeded that goal.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST WILSON HURLEY on the front free endpaper. A sound, attractive copy to boot of the 1985 stated 1st edition of this important catalogue and monograph on the American Western landscape painter Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, high-quality color reproductions throughout.