Original Pencil Portrait Sketch of William Faulkner
1959WRCLIT80436Denver 1959. Original pencil portrait measured to mat edges 5.5 x 3.75" 14 x 9.5 cm. Matted and framed under glass. Not examined out of frame faint tanning to paper but very good. A quarter profile sketch of Faulkner's head captioned in the artist's hand: "William Faulkner sketched by Peter Hurd at a UNESCO Conference Denver '59." One of the subjects of the 1959 Denver National Conference on UNESCO was "The cultures of the Americas: achievements in education science and the arts" and Faulkner addressed the closing Plenary Session on 2 October 1959 see Petersen D46a. On the paper sealing the verso of the frame Hurd's friend and collaborator historian and novelist Paul Horgan has inscribed in ink: "Portrait Sketch of William Faulkner by Peter Hurd / Collection of Paul Horgan." unknown books
