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Title:The Mountaineer
Artist:Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
Date:1929
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:52 x 42 in. (132.1 x 106.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Accession Number:61.101.24
Inscription: Signed (left center): Eugene Speicher
Stephen C. Clark, New York (1929–d. 1960; his bequest to MMA)
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans," December 13, 1929–January 12, 1930, no. 92 (as "Mountaineer," lent by Stephen C. Clark, New York).
Saint Louis. City Art Museum. "Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists," September 19–November 1, 1931, no. 101 (as "Mountaineer," lent by Mr. Stephen Carter Clark, New York).
New York. College Art Association. "Survey of American Painting," March 31–April 16, 1932, no. 25 (as "Mountaineer").
Woodstock, N. Y. Woodstock Artists Association. "First Annual Exhibition," August 12–September 9, 1933.
Art Institute of Chicago. "A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture 1934," June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 689 (lent by Mr. Stephen C. Clark, New York).
Andover, Mass. Addison Gallery of American Art. "American Paintings from the Stephen C. Clark Collection," May 1940, unnumbered cat. (p. 14).
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries. "Eugene Speicher," March 3–29, 1941.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary Painting in the United States," April 19–27, 1941, no. 148.
Mexico City. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," June 12–July 9, 1941, unnumbered cat. (p. 99; lent by Stephen C. Clark).
Santiago. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," September 6–October 5, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Lima. Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," November 5–30, 1941, unnumbered cat.
Quito. Universidad Central de Ecuador. "La Pintura Contemporánea Norteamericana," December 1941, unnumbered cat.
New York. Art Gallery, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The National Institute of Arts and Letters. "Comprehensive Exhibition," May 9–June 19, 1942, no. 179 (lent courtesy of Stephen C. Clark).
New-York Historical Society. "Portraits of Americans by Americans. Exhibition of the National Association of Portrait Painters," April 1–May 5, 1945.
New York. Century Association. "Robert Henri and Five of His Pupils," April 5–June 1, 1946.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. "Eugene Speicher: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Drawings 1908–1949," September 29–October 26, 1950, no. 9 (lent by Stephen C. Clark, New York).
New York. Century Club. "Eugene Speicher Retrospective," opened December 5, 1951.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition," July 7–September 7, 1959, checklist no. 105 (lent by Stephen C. Clark).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Paintings from Private Collections: Summer Loan Exhibition," July 6–September 4, 1960, checklist no. 117 (lent by Stephen C. Clark).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
Syracuse, N.Y. Everson Museum of Art. May 1–22, 1974.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Vassar College Art Gallery. "Woodstock: An American Art Colony, 1902–1977," January 23–March 4, 1977.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Tribute to a Curator: Robert Beverly Hale," November 16, 1978–March 4, 1979, extended to March 18, 1979, unnum. checklist.
Jacksonville, Fla. Jacksonville Art Museum. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–April 21, 1985, unnumbered cat. (p. 151).
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 5–June 30, 1985, unnumbered cat.
New York. National Academy of Design. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 16–September 1, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Evanston, Ill. Terra Museum of American Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 15–November 10, 1985, unnumbered cat.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 12, 1985–January 19, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 9–March 30, 1986, unnumbered cat.
St. Paul. Minnesota Museum of Art. "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 20–June 8, 1986, unnumbered cat.
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. 13.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Along His Own Lines: A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher," October 18, 2014–March 22, 2015, no. 13.
Royal Cortissoz. "Another Show at the Modern Museum." New York Herald Tribune (December 15, 1929), p. G9.
Helen Appleton Read. "Modern Museum's New Show." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (December 15, 1929), p. 6E, ill.
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.
Frank Jewett Mather. Eugene Speicher. New York, 1931, p. 18, ill., locates it in the collection of Stephen Clark.
Mary Powell. "American Life Typified in American Paintings at St. Louis." American Magazine of Art 23 (November 1931), p. 432.
"Plans for the Annual Meeting of the College Art Association." Parnassus 4 (January 1932), p. 20.
Royal Cortissoz. "Old and New Types." New York Herald Tribune (April 10, 1932), p. F10.
Edward Alden Jewell. "High Spot of Summer Season Brings Forth Canvases That Are Familiar and New." New York Times (August 20, 1933), p. X5.
Carlyle Burrows. "The First Annual Show at Woodstock." New York Herald Tribune (August 20, 1933), p. D6.
"First Annual Exhibit at Woodstock Gallery." Kingston Daily Freeman (August 22, 1933), p. 5.
James W. Lane. "Thirty-three Masterpieces in a Modern Collection: Mr. Stephen C. Clark's Paintings by American and European Masters." Art News Annual 37 (January 1, 1939), p. 160, ill. p. 152.
Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. "Collection of U.S. Painting, 1845–1929: Mr. Stephen C. Clark's Loan to Andover." Art News 38 (June 1, 1940), p. 15.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Speicher Offers Painting Display." New York Times (March 4, 1941), p. 26.
Milton Brown. "Exhibitions—New York." Parnassus 13 (April 1941), p. 158.
Royal Cortissoz. "Eugene Speicher and John Sargent." New York Herald Tribune (March 9, 1941), p. F8, ill.
A[lexander]. Z[erdini]. Kruse. "At the Art Galleries." Brooklyn Daily Eagle (March 16, 1941), p. E8.
"Presenting the 'Elite': The American Academy of Arts and Letters Stages a Show." Pictures on Exhibit 5 (May 1942), ill. p. 9.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Melange: American Institute Offers a Survey; West by East." New York Times (May 10, 1942), ill. p. X5.
James W. Lane. "Ars Longa at the Academy: Not the N.A. but the American Immortals in Their First Exhibition." Art News 41 (May 15–31, 1942), p. 13.
Royal Cortissoz. "A Good Exhibition at the Academy of Arts and Letters." New York Herald Tribune (May 10, 1942), p. E6.
Eugene Speicher. New York, 1945, unpaginated, ill.
Carlyle Burrows. "Art of the Week." New York Herald Tribune (April 1, 1945), p. C7.
Richard Shepherd. "Henri and His Boys." Art News 45 (May 1946), p. 43, ill.
Richard E. Thibaut Jr. "Woodstock News: Speicher Works Receive Praise." Kingston Daily Freeman (January 4, 1952), p. 11.
Stuart Preston. "Art: Gallic Flavor at the Metropolitan." New York Times 1960 (July 6, 1960), p. 29.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 84–85, ill.
Lowery Stokes Sims. The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Jacksonville Art Museum. New York, 1984, pp. 143, 150–51, ill.
Gilbert T. Vincent and Sarah Lees inThe Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Mass., 2006, pp. 138, 147.
Sarah Lees inThe Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Mass., 2006, pp. 315, 345, no. 384, fig. 320.
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, 102, colorpl. 13.
Tom Wolf 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, p. 33.
Eugene Speicher (American, Buffalo, New York 1883–1962 Woodstock, New York)
1927
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