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Wilson Hurley

Wilson Hurley (1924 - 2008) was active/lived in New Mexico, Oklahoma.  Wilson Hurley is known for Landscape, some western genre, mural painting.

Wilson Hurley (1924-2008)

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he became a painter in luminist style of the American West, especially known for his depictions of Canyon de Chelly, Yellowstone Park, and the Grand Canyon.

He attended high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where his family moved in 1935.  Knowing his interest and talent, his mother arranged for him to spend time as a teenager with artists Theodore Van Solen, Josef Bakos, and John Young-Hunter.  Hurley studied engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1945, and then served in the Air Force.  He resigned his Air Force commission to go to law school at George Washington University in Washington DC and then practiced law in Albuquerque, New Mexico for fourteen years.

In 1965, he became a full-time painter, an occupation interrupted by serving in the Vietnam War during 1968 and 1969.  In 1972, Hurley became a member of the National Academy of Western Art, and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8859 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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