Along His Own Lines

A Retrospective of New York Realist Eugene Speicher

By Valerie Ann Leeds, Tom Wolf, Daniel Belasco, and Sara J. Pasti

Subjects: Art
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9780615861029, 104 pages, February 2014

Table of contents

Foreword
Sara J. Pasti
Acknowledgments
My Credo
Eugene Speicher
From Prominence to Obscurity: Reconsidering the Art and Career of Eugene Speicher
Valerie Ann Leeds
Eugene Speicher, Woodstock Artist
Tom Wolf

Clear in His Mind: The Drawings of Eugene Speicher
Daniel Belasco

Plates
Selected Exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
Exhibition Checklist

The first scholarly exhibition catalogue of the work of Eugene Speicher (1883-1962), one of the foremost American realists of his generation, who was closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent.

Description

Called "America's greatest living painter" by Esquire magazine in 1936, Speicher (1883–1962) was one of the foremost realists of his generation, closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and Leon Kroll. The exhibition catalogue examines Speicher's oeuvre, including his artistic development, subject matter, choice of models, influences, and the critical reception of his work. The catalogue contains three essays. The primary essay by curator Valerie Ann Leeds consists of a general assessment and critical review of Speicher's career and his place in the art world of his day. Another essay authored by Tom Wolf explores Speicher and his relationship to Woodstock. A third essay, by Daniel Belasco, surveys Speicher's drawings. The catalogue is the first to present a significant body of Speicher's work in color.

Valerie Ann Leeds is an independent curator and scholar, and a renowned expert on Robert Henri and American art. Tom Wolf is Professor of Art History at Bard College and specializes in American art, with an emphasis on the art and artists of the Woodstock art colony. Daniel Belasco is Curator of Exhibitions and Programs at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz.