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Title:Deep Lake, Canada
Artist:Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
Date:1933
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:27 x 35 in. (68.6 x 88.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1934
Accession Number:34.39
Inscription: Signed (lower left): Eugene Speicher
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1933–34; sold through the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York to MMA)
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Exhibition by Eugene Speicher," January 2–February 3, 1934, no. 16 (as "The Deep Lake, Canada").
WPA Art Center, Jacksonville, Fla. "Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 1–31, 1941, no catalogue.
Omaha. Joslyn Memorial. "Contemporary American Paintings," June 23–September 1, 1941, no catalogue.
Beaumont, Tex. Beaumont Women's Club. October 7–28, 1941.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. "Paintings by American Artists," December 1941.
City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "Trends in American Painting of Today: Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition," January 25–February 28, 1942.
Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island. February 26–August 9, 1943 (among a series of loans made to this army hospital).
New York. Brearley School. September 22, 1944–February 13, 1945.
Bronx, N.Y. Riverdale Neighborhood Association. April 2–May 1, 1945.
Norfolk, Va. Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. "Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 1, 1946–January 26, 1947, no catalogue.
New York. YMCA, West Side. February 24–September 2, 1947, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Junior Museum. September 30, 1947–December 23, 1948.
New York. Century Club. November 1–30, 1951.
Norwich, Conn. Slater Memorial Museum. February 7–28, 1954, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, not in brochure.
"Metropolitan Museum Buys Speicher Landscape." New York Herald Tribune (January 18, 1934), p. 15.
"'The Deep Lake, Canada,' by Eugene Speicher." Mid-Week Pictorial (January 1934), p. 128-L, ill.
Edward Alden Jewell. "In the Realm of Art: The Season's Activity is Resumed." New York Times (January 7, 1934), p. X12.
"Metropolitan Buys a Speicher." New York Times (January 18, 1934), p. 17.
New York Times (January 21, 1934), p. RP2, ill.
Inslee A. Hopper. "New York Shows." American Magazine of Art 27 (March 1934), ill. p. 134.
William M. Ivins, Jr. et al. "Notes." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29 (April 1934), p. 67.
Royal Cortissoz. "Two Americans in Full Length Shows." New York Herald Tribune (January 7, 1934), p. D10, calls it "The Deep Lake".
"Eugene Speicher Holds First One Man Show in Five Years." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (January 7, 1934), p. 12 B-C.
"FSCW to Sponsor Exhibit of Art at Jacksonville." Tallahassee Democrat (February 27, 1941), p. 10.
Leonard Thiessen. "Art." Sunday World-Herald Omaha (July 20, 1941), p. 7-C.
"Art Exhibit Opens Sunday at Museum." Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (November 30, 1946), p. 3.
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 24, fig. 2.
Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
1927
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