Eugene Speicher
Eugene Speicher | |
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Born | |
Died | May 11, 1962 | (aged 79)
Nationality | American |
Known for | Painting |
Eugene (Edward) Speicher
Biography
Speicher was born in
From the teens, Speicher began to receive a steady stream of awards and honors. By the 1920s Speicher was considered a leading portrait artist in America, practicing a form of realism. Among the awards he received was the Beck Gold medal for portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in January 1920, for his painting Russian Girl. In 1926 he was awarded the Potter Palmer Gold medal at the Art Institute of Chicago for The Lace Scarf. In 1936 Esquire magazine called him America's most important living painter.[2] He was also awarded the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1938 for Marianna.
Recognized for his work in portraiture, Speicher’s renown allowed him to support himself with commissions, and he also executed many flower still lifes and landscapes. Always favoring female subjects, he was also one of the few moderns to undertake nudes for which he became known. With a strong technique and great capability as a draughtsman, Speicher’s compositions are analytical and methodical in their design and execution.
He was nominated an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1912 and a full academician in 1925. Speicher was appointed director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1945. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.[3]
Works
- "Morning Light" (1912), a charming landscape (Metropolitan Museum)
- "The Girl in Rose" (1913)
- John Nelson Cole (1914) Talk:Eugene Speicher
- Miss Helen Appleton (Thomas R. Proctor Prize, National Academy, 1911)[4]
- Charles Dana Gibson
- Miss Mary Stuart Snyder
- Actress Katharine Cornell in her role as Candida
Notes
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (July 2013) |
- ^ EUGENE SPEICHER: ALONG HIS OWN LINES IN NEW PALTZ
- ^ Schwendener, Martha (27 June 2014). "American Realism by Way of Woodstock". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ "Eugene Speicher". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Gilman, Peck & Colby 1916.
References
- Leeds, Valerie Ann, et al., Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher. New Paltz, New York: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, 2014. ISBN 978-0-615-86102-9
- Eugene Speicher. N.Y.: American Artists Group. 1945.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia. Vol. 21 (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. p. 380.
External links
- Media related to Eugene E. Speicher at Wikimedia Commons
- Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. .