Oil/C portrait attrib. to Eugene Edward Speicher 1883-1962 Amer.

Description: Oil on canvas. Possibly faintly signed top right. Unidentified sitter.Feel quite confident on my Eugene Edward Speicher attribution for I've handled numerous works by this artist.Measurements: Frame; 27 x 27". Oil; 22 x 22".Provenance: Norfolk, VA. estate. Eugene Speicher is considered one of the foremost realists of his generation who closely upheld the mantle of his mentor, Robert Henri. His reputation currently rests on his involvement with the Woodstock artists' colony and has been largely overshadowed by the popularity of The Eight and the Ashcan School. A native of Buffalo, New York, Eugene Speicher earned a prestigious reputation as an artist, and in 1936 was named "America's most important living artist" by the editors of Esquire magazine. From 1902 to 1906, he studied at the Buffalo Art School, and winning an Albright Scholarship, he studied in New York at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. His main influence was Robert Henri in Henri's New York Art School where fellow students were George Bellows, Edward Hopper and Guy Pene DuBois.After a year of travel in Europe, he returned to New York to win numerous awards. He limited his portrait commissions to six a year to spend more time on figure and landscape painting. He was especially known for figure work of solid structure and design. Speicher was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design, 1912; Full Academician to the National Academy, 1927. He was also a member of the National Society of Portrait Painters; National Arts Club; Contemporary Group; International Society of Painters Sculptors and Gravers; New Society of Artists; Century Club; Boston Art Club and others. He was director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1945.He won numerous awards during his career including Proctor prize, National Academy of Design, 1911; third Hallgarten prize, 1914, NAD; first Hallgarten prize, 1915, NAD; Isidor portrait prize, Salmagundi Club, 1913; silver medal, Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915; Beck gold medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1920; third class medal, 1921, Carnegie Institute, second class medal, 1922, Carnegie Institute; Potter Palmer gold medal ($1000), Art Institute of Chicago, 1926; medal of the first class of the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC,1935 and others. The Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo had a large retrospective exhibition of his works in 1950, and the Academy of Arts and Letters had a retrospective in 1963. He taught at the Art Students' League from 1908 to 1913 and again from 1919 to 1920. He had his first one-man show at the Montross Gallery in New York in 1918. Eugene Speicher passed away on May 12th, 1962. Bio. courtesy of AskArt.

Price: 580 USD

Location: Onancock, Virginia

End Time: 2025-01-17T19:32:35.000Z

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