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Title:Polly
Artist:Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
Date:1927
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:43 × 36 in. (109.2 × 91.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1928
Accession Number:28.13
Inscription: Signed (upper right): Eugene Speicher
the artist, New York (1927–28; sold through the Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York to MMA)
Denver Art Museum. "Eugene Speicher," April 1–30, 1948, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 11).
American Federation of Arts circulating exhibition. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," January 1951–November 1952 (lent to numerous U.S. venues, including those listed below), no catalogue (checklist no. 17).
Hagerstown, Md. Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 1951.
Nashville. Watkins Institute. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 5–25, 1951.
Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery Museum of Art. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," December 1951.
Abilene, Tex. Abilene Museum of Fine Arts. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," April 7–20, 1952.
Shreveport. Louisiana State Exhibit Museum. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," May 11–25, 1952.
South Hadley, Mass. Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College. "American Paintings of the Twentieth Century," November 6–25, 1952.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Columbia Bicentennial Exhibition," October 28, 1954–April 18, 1955, no catalogue.
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. "Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher," February 5–July 13, 2014, no. 14.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher," October 18, 2014–March 22, 2015, no. 14.
Elisabeth L. Carey. "Metropolitan Exhibit." New York Times (February 26, 1928), p. 118, ill.
"New Portrait by Speicher Bought by the Metropolitan." New York Times (February 21, 1928), p. 1.
J. M. L. "Hearn Fund Purchases." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 23 (March 1928), p. 91, notes that this picture is on view in the Room of Recent Accessions.
"At the Metropolitan Museum." American Magazine of Art 19 (May 1928), pp. 274–75.
Walter Gutman. "Eugene Speicher." Art in America and Elsewhere 17 (December 1928), pp. 31–32, 35–36.
"Museum Honors U.S. Painters by New Purchases." New York Herald Tribune (March 12, 1928), p. 13.
Adeline L. Atwater. "The Rocky Road to Art." New York Herald Tribune (June 3, 1928), p. SM13.
Adelaide Kerr. "America's Art Store Augmented By Rich Treasures During 1928." Chattanooga Daily Times (December 30, 1928), p. 36.
Edward Alden Jewell. "New Marin Water-colors: Fine Performance, Ideal Setting—Botzaris and Other Sculptors—Speicher Portfolio." New York Times (January 5, 1930), p. X12.
"Some Modern Museum Acquisitions." Parnassus 4 (February 1932), p. 33.
"Metropolitan Museum Buys Speicher Landscape." New York Herald Tribune (January 18, 1934), p. 15.
"Metropolitan Buys a Speicher." New York Times (January 18, 1934), p. 17.
"Art News." Sunday News and Tribune (Jefferson City, Missouri) (April 22, 1934), p. 3.
Carlyle Burrows. "Hearn Paintings at the Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (May 30, 1937), p. E6.
Harry B. Wehle. "National Art Week and the Museum: Trends in American Painting." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35 (November 1940), ill. p. 13.
Jeannette Lowe. "The Metropolitan as a Patron of Americans: A Special Art Week Show." Art News 39 (November 23, 1940), p. 10.
J[ames]. W. L[ane]. "Eugene Speicher." Art News 40 (March 15–31, 1941), p. 44.
Carlyle Burrows. "The Re-arranged American Rooms at the Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (August 31, 1941), p. E5.
Holger Cahill. "In Our Time." Magazine of Art 39 (November 1946), ill. p. 314.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 60.
D. R. K. "Metropolitan Exhibit at Museum." Montgomery Advertiser (December 9, 1951), p. 29.
"Paintings of Famed American Artists to Be Shown Monday." Abilene Reporter-News (April 6, 1952), p. 7-B.
"New Exhibit by American Artists Opens." Shreveport Times (May 11, 1952), p. B9.
Valerie Ann Leeds inAlong His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher. Exh. cat., Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz. New Paltz, 2014, pp. 17, 25 n. 29, p. 102, colorpl. 14.
Martha Schwendener. "American Realism by Way of Woodstock." New York Times (June 29, 2014), p. WE9.
Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
ca. 1907
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