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for Edward Timothy Hurley
1869 - 1950
Hurley graduated from Xavier University and then after his interest was kindled in art by the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, he studied with Frank Duveneck and Walter Beck at the Cincinnati Art Academy.
Hurley had a great love for animal life, and drew from nature at the Cincinnati Zoological Museum, and fish at the New York Aquarium and along the Maine and Massachusetts coasts. Many of these drawings were transferred to pottery, after he began working as a designer and decorator the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati in 1896. Hurley soon turned his attention to landscape and experimented with photography for recording his impressions.
Later Hurley turned to recording the life about him and became the official recorder of Cincinnati life, depicting its side streets, churches, skyline, monuments, and bridges. The following editions of his prints were published by the St. James Press: The Town of the Beautiful River (1915); Cincinnati (1916); For Old Acquaintance (1917); Bridges and Byways (1919); Impressions of Cincinnati (1924); Streets and Spries of Cincinnati (1926). These books are relatively small and are accompanied by poetic texts that become quasi-guide books to his home town.
Hurley did over 3,000 prints. He won a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition (1904) and the Logan Medal for Etching (1921). He patented "Hurley" Pastel Crayons (1922) that do not rub off, also "Hurley" Black Etching Ground.
Hurley married Alice Irene Bishop (1908) who was also an artist. Hurley was proposed to the NAD by John Taylor Arms.
Hurley had a great love for animal life, and drew from nature at the Cincinnati Zoological Museum, and fish at the New York Aquarium and along the Maine and Massachusetts coasts. Many of these drawings were transferred to pottery, after he began working as a designer and decorator the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati in 1896. Hurley soon turned his attention to landscape and experimented with photography for recording his impressions.
Later Hurley turned to recording the life about him and became the official recorder of Cincinnati life, depicting its side streets, churches, skyline, monuments, and bridges. The following editions of his prints were published by the St. James Press: The Town of the Beautiful River (1915); Cincinnati (1916); For Old Acquaintance (1917); Bridges and Byways (1919); Impressions of Cincinnati (1924); Streets and Spries of Cincinnati (1926). These books are relatively small and are accompanied by poetic texts that become quasi-guide books to his home town.
Hurley did over 3,000 prints. He won a gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition (1904) and the Logan Medal for Etching (1921). He patented "Hurley" Pastel Crayons (1922) that do not rub off, also "Hurley" Black Etching Ground.
Hurley married Alice Irene Bishop (1908) who was also an artist. Hurley was proposed to the NAD by John Taylor Arms.
