Hurd, Peter:

$250 · Offered by William Reese Company

[Typed Letter, Signed]. Hurd in part responds to a query about his controversial portrait of Lyndon Johnson: "... I'm sorry I can't give you any information as to the exhibition of my portrait of President Johnson. It was commissioned by the Historical Society of Washington and it would be up to them to make whatever use of it they saw fit." Hurd's portrait was to be LBJ's official White House portrait, but after Johnson somewhat colorfully and publicly expressed his dissatisfaction, it was set aside from that use. It is now in the National Portrait Gallery. From the James S. Copley collection.

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