Pioneer Homebuilders
Artist
Peter Hurd
Year1940
Classification
painting
Medium
fresco
Dimensions100 x 236 in. (254 x 599.4 cm)
Credits
Commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts, 1934 - 1943
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
- Overall theme is Progress: Rural Delivery to Air Mail. Signed "Hurd" on design area of the leather trunk on the lower right. A pioneer home family is building a log cabin in a landscape dotted with mesquite trees, similar to those seen just south of Grand Prairie, located between Fort Worth and Dallas, and the Trinity River.