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Birth
1924 (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Death
2008 (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Lived/Active
New Mexico
Often Known For
landscape, some western genre, mural painting
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Painters of Grand Canyon
Taos Pre 1940
Western Painters
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Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Wilson Hurley 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.
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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 teen ager with artists Theodore Van Solen, Josef Bakos,
and John Young-Hunter. Hurley studied engineering at the U.S.
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