Clement Hurd

Clement Gazzam Hurd (January 12, 1908 – February 5, 1988) was an American artist. He is known for illustrations of children's picture books, especially collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny (1942).

Biography

Early life Hurd was born in New York City, In 2007, the National Education Association listed Goodnight Moon as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number four among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal.

Hurd also illustrated over fifty books written by his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd (a friend of Brown's), as well as a children's book written by Gertrude Stein, The World Is Round. Hurd wrote and illustrated the book Run, Run, Run.

Hurd died of Alzheimer's disease at a San Francisco hospital in 1988.

Hurd's work, as well as that of his wife and son, were featured at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in the 2004 exhibition "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith and Thatcher Hurd."

Selected works

The World Is Round (New York: W. R. Scott, 1939), words by Gertrude Stein, The Merry Chase (Random House, 1941) The Race Between the Monkey and the Duck (Wonder Books, 1946) Run Run Run: Story of Black Cat and Dog (Harper, 1951), Margaret Wise Brown Bumble Bugs and Elephants (W. R. Scott, 1938) The Runaway Bunny (Harper, 1942) Goodnight Moon (Harper, 1947) My World (Harper, 1949), Brown – a Goodnight Moon book Good-night Moon Room (Harper, 1984) — pop-up book version Goodnight Moon's 123: A Counting Book (HarperCollins, 2007) Goodnight Moon's ABC: An Alphabet Book (HarperCollins, 2010) Edith Thacher Hurd Benny the Bulldozer (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1947) Little Brass Band (Harper, 1955) Windy and the Willow Whistle (Sterling, 1956) Mr. Charlie, the Fireman's Friend (Lippincott, 1958) Last One Home is a Green Pig (Harper, 1959) Hurry Hurry (Harper, 1960) Come and Have Fun (Harper, 1962) Christmas Eve (Harper, 1962) No Funny Business (Harper, 1962) The Day the Sun Danced (Harper, 1965) Johnny Lion's Book (Harper, 1965) What Whale? Where? (Harper, 1966) The Blue Heron Tree (Viking, 1968) This is the Forest (Coward-McCann, 1969) Catfish (Viking, 1970) Johnny Lion's Bad Day (Harper, 1970) Wilson's World (Harper, 1971) Johnny Lion's Rubber Boots (Harper, 1972) The Mother Owl (Little, Brown, 1974) The Mother Kangaroo (Little, Brown, 1976) Look for a Bird (Harper, 1977) The Mother Chimpanzee (Little, Brown, 1978) Under the Lemon Tree (Little, Brown, 1980)