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Edward Timothy Hurley (1869–1950)
Mount Auburn Snow, 1910
oil on canvas
28 x 40 in.

Responsible for many iconic images of Cincinnati, Edward Hurley published seven books of etchings illustrating local views. Also known as one of the leading artists at Rookwood Pottery, he worked as a decorator of ceramics for nearly fifty years. In addition to these pursuits, Hurley was an accomplished painter. Similar in coloring to his celebrated painting The Midnight Mass, Mount Auburn, Snow is painted with a cast of melancholy blues, highlighted by the warm yellow glow of windows and car headlights. Always finding beauty in the scenery around him, Hurley chose to paint an ordinary Mount Auburn hillside. He once said, “It always seemed useless to me to start out ‘looking for materials’ when I had right under my nose more pictures than I could ever make.”