Murray River
Alternate TitleLandscape
Artist
Eugene Edward Speicher
(American, 1883 - 1962)
Date1933
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 27 x 35 1/16 inches (68.58 x 89.06 cm)
Framed: 32 3/8 x 40 9/16 inches (82.23 x 103.03 cm)
Framed: 32 3/8 x 40 9/16 inches (82.23 x 103.03 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Alfred B. Clark
Object number61-42
SignedSigned lower right: Eugene Speicher
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionSteep hillside with poplars, lower right center, stream extends from lower left center to bend in foreground, turning left, with steep banks bearing trees. Farm buildings, right backgound, amid rolling hills. Other buildings in clear area before two large, dark hills, left background; cloudy sky.Published ReferencesEdward Alden Jewell, “In the Realm: Three One-Man Shows;
Eugene Speicher, John Sloan and Ernest Fiene Step into the
Dawn of a New Year,” New York Times, 7 January 1934, X12; Exhibition by Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York: Frank K. M. Rehn
Galleries, 1934), unpaginated; “Check List of Acquisitions, 1962,”
Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 4 (October 1962), 17 (as Landscape); NAMA
1973, 254 (as Landscape); NAMA 1991, 151–52.
Eugene Speicher, John Sloan and Ernest Fiene Step into the
Dawn of a New Year,” New York Times, 7 January 1934, X12; Exhibition by Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York: Frank K. M. Rehn
Galleries, 1934), unpaginated; “Check List of Acquisitions, 1962,”
Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 4 (October 1962), 17 (as Landscape); NAMA
1973, 254 (as Landscape); NAMA 1991, 151–52.
Copyright© Estate of Eugene Edward Speicher
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