Eugene Speicher

American (1883-1962)

Eugene Speicher was born in 1883 in Buffalo, New York. He studied at the Albright School with Mary Cox, Lucas Hitchcock, and Urquhart Wilcox from 1901 to 1906 winning an Albright Scholarship. Speicher also studied at the Art Students` League with Frank Vincent DuMond and William Merritt Chase in 1907; and at the Independent School with Robert Henri in 1908 where fellow students were Bellows, Hopper and DuBois. Speicher later was associated with the Woodstock Art Colony located in Woodstock, New York. Both his peers and the public also considered him one of the best portrait painters of his time. Speicher also painted Landscapes, mountains, harbors, farms, still lifes, flowers and nudes.

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 in 1945.