Clement Hurd

Clement G. Hurd (1908–1988) was born in New York and studied architecture at Yale University. From 1930 to 1933, he studied painting in Paris under Fernand Léger. Hurd later worked as a graphic artist and illustrated numerous children’s books, including works by Margaret Wise Brown and Gertrude Stein’s “The World Is Round.” He died in San Francisco in 1988.