Eugene Speicher

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name = Eugene Speicher


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location = Buffalo, New York
deathdate = 1962
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nationality = American
field = Painting
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Speicher, Eugene (Edward) (April 5, 1883 – 1962) (Age 79) was an American portrait, landscape, and figurative painter.

Speicher was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied there at the Albright Art School; in New York at the Art Students League and the Henri Art School. After studying also for two years in Europe, devoting himself especially to the old masters in Paris, Holland, and Spain, he settled in New York, and soon became known as one of the most promising of the younger group of American painters. In the 1920s Speicher was one of the leading portrait artists in America, practicing a form of romantic realism. He was awarded the Beck Gold medal for portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy of 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". He was also given the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1938 for "Marianna".

He became an associate of the National Academy of Design (1913). Speicher was appointed director of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1945.

Works

* "Morning Light" (1912), a charming landscape (Metropolitan Museum)
* "The Girl in Rose" (1913)
** John Nelson Cole (1914) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eugene_Speicher]
** Miss Helen Appleton (Proctor Prize, National Academy, 1911) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Encyclopedia]
** Charles Dana Gibson
** Miss Mary Stuart Snyder

References

* American Artists Group, Inc. N.Y. 1945, "Eugene Speicher"

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