Sermon from Revelations

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Type: Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Accession number: 91.284.35
Maker: Peter Hurd(Opens in new tab) (American, 1904–1984)
Dimensions: 10 x 13 1/2 in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm.)
Medium: lithograph printed in black on white wove paper
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Homer D. Crotty.
Department: American Art
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The 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.

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