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Hurd-La Rinconada Gallery & Guest Homes Online Newsletter ~ September 2010

Sunflower Detail by Henriette Wyeth-Hurd

"Sunflower"
by Henriette Wyeth-Hurd

Available Framed $900 or Unframed $500 from the Gallery.

1-800-658-6912

Art as Investment

"The Late Call" by Peter Hurd Current Value ~ $500*

(*Signed & in Mint Condition)

Keep up to date with the current values of your treasured art by visiting our website:

www.wyethartists.com

Great-Grandmother Celebrates 92nd Birthday at the Wyeth House

Surrounded by family and friends, Floreine Hall of Alamogordo celebrated her 92nd birthday in the portal of the Wyeth House on Sept. 4th. Mrs. Hall grew up in northeastern New Mexico and always said the windmill tank on their ranch was the swimming pool for all the local kids. It seemed only fitting that Mrs. Hall would have her windmill-themed party within view of Peter Hurd's windmill, just beneath Sentinel Hill. The Hurd Gallery and Guest Homes make a uniquely beautiful setting for parties, meetings, weddings and receptions. Call the Gallery for more information.

Green Chile Chicken Sour Cream Enchiladas

1 doz. corn tortillas
oil

green chile sauce with chicken*

2 cups sour cream

1/2 cup chopped green chile

1/2 cup minced onion

2 cups grated longhorn cheese

2 tomatoes, cut into wedges

~Fry corn tortillas in hot oil; keep tortillas soft; do not overcook.

~Drain on paper towel.

~Prepare green chile sauce* and keep warm over low heat. (Keep chile sauce hot so that cheese will melt.)

~Blend sour cream, green chile, and onion; set aside.

~Place tortillas in stacks of 3 layers (enchiladas can also be rolled instead of layered,) each topped with chile sauce, 1 Tbsp. sour cream mixture and cheese.

~Top layer should end with sour cream mixture and cheese.

~Garnish with tomato wedges.

Serve immediately.

Makes 4 3-layer servings or 12 rolled enchiladas.

*1 lb. chicken torn into pieces

1/2 cup chopped green chile

1/4 tsp. onion salt

1/4 tsp. garlic salt

1/4 cup flour or cornstarch

1 1/4 cups water

~Cook chicken and cube or tear into bite-size pieces.

~Add chopped chile and salts.

~Prepare a gravy paste by mixing flour and 1/4 cup water; pour in 1 cup water and add to chicken mixture; stir well.

~Simmer 10-15 min.

~Makes 1 quart.

La Helenita Available Soon!

One of our most popular guest houses, La Helenita, has been rented for the last year, but will be available for rental again after Dec. 15th. Make your reservations now!

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Muddy Waters on the Rio Grande

by Michael Hurd

Price: $7,500
Size: 13 1/2" x 19 1/2"

Medium: watercolor

Signed: lower right

La Cantina

by Michael Hurd

Price: Please Inquire
Size: 17 1/2" x 23 1/2"

Medium: oil on panel

Signed: lower right

Peter Hurd Participating in Chicken Pull

     When I first met Michael, we often went on watercolor outings together. I learned very quickly that it was dangerous to stand behind and to the right of him when he's painting. Every few seconds, he rinses his paintbrush and flicks it backward to shake off the excess water. If you stand there too long, you walk away looking like an Easter egg. Michael's dogs, who often accompany him on painting trips, have also occasionally been seen with these colorful, Jackson Pollock-like designs.
     I mention this to illustrate that an artist's vehicle is also easily recognizable due to a particularly colorful spatter-design on the rear bumper. And when you see this, I would give you this advice...keep a safe distance.

     In the fall of 2005, Michael was completing a large oil painting that he had been working on for 6 months entitled "Lost Trail at White Sands." In the passenger seat, was his Doberman traveling companion, Nikka. It was a breezy evening and already getting dark when Michael and Nikka left the Monument and pulled out on the highway. They soon found themselves trapped in busy one-lane traffic since the highway was being repaired and the left lane was blocked by pylons.  It wasn't long before an impatient driver came screaming up behind Michael's RV, probably unable to see that there was a long line of slow-moving traffic up ahead.  Nobody was going anywhere quickly.

    Up ahead, traffic seemed to be swerving to avoid something in the lane. Michael approached cautiously with only seconds to swerve and miss the pylon that had blown partly into the driving lane. Despite his efforts, he clipped the pylon and sent it flipping into the empty lane. Looking in the rearview mirror, he saw the tailgater suddenly hit the brakes as he began to swerve back and forth in a mist of vapor. The pylon had struck the vent valve so that the full contents of the black-water and grey-water tanks were now spewing water (and other suspect material) all over the impatient tailgater. His windshield wipers tried in vain to cope with the unexpected shower, but Michael had recently returned from a trip and had not had time to empty the tanks, so there was much to be shared.

    The moral of this story, of course, is that if you're close enough to see multi-colored paint spatters all over the bumper, you'd better back up quick...you're probably following an artist.

September 17th ~ A Special Night in the Paul Horgan Library

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