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Edward Timothy Hurley (10 October 1869, Cincinnati - 29 November 1950, Cincinnati) was an American artist who worked as a decorator for the Rookwood Pottery Company from 1896 to 1948. Among Rookwood's most prolific artists, Hurley worked in many other media during his free time, including oil painting, etching, bronze casting, watercolor, and pastels.

Life
Born in Cincinnati in 1869 to Irish immigrants Timothy Hurley (1830-1887) and Johanna D. Hurley (1834-1903), Hurley graduated from Xavier University in 1887. For several years he worked at a tea company and as a salesman, before a visit to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago inspired him to attend night classes at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. There between 1893 and 1898 he studied under prominent local artist Frank Duveneck, who he came to idolize.

Hurley married Irene Bishop, a fellow Rookwood decorator, in 1907. She died in 1925. Hurley died on November 29th, 1950 and was buried in New St. Joseph Cemetery, Cincinnati.