Pigtails
Alternate TitlePortrait of a Young Girl
Artist
Eugene Edward Speicher
(American, 1883 - 1962)
Date1939
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches (52.07 x 48.9 cm)
Framed: 29 11/16 x 28 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (75.41 x 71.76 x 8.89 cm)
Framed: 29 11/16 x 28 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (75.41 x 71.76 x 8.89 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art
Object number39-38
SignedSigned lower right: Eugene Speicher
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionHalf-length portrait of a young girl wearing a pink sweater with round neck and brown buttons down the front; light-brown hair parted in middle and done in two braids, one of which hangs over right shoulder, blue ribbon on each.Published References “Friends of Art to Pick Painting,” Kansas City Post, 5 December
1939, 10 (as Portrait of Young Girl); “To Choose Gallery Gift,” Kansas City Times, 6 December 1939, 13 (as Portrait of a Young Girl);
“Downing Heads Friends of Art,” Kansas City Post, 9 December
1939, 12 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “New Head of the Friends
of Art, and a Gift,” Kansas City Star, 9 December 1939, 3 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “Debate over Art Gift,” Kansas City Times,
9 December 1939, 12 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “Friends Give
Fine Works by Hurd and Speicher to Kansas City,” Art Digest 14
(15 December 1939), 15; “Friends of Art Give Three Pieces of
Contemporary Work to Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum,”
Kansas City Journal-Post, 19 December 1939, 8B; H[enry] C.
H[askell], “The Friends of Art Present a Portrait to the Gallery,”
Kansas City Star, 29 December 1939, 6 (as Portrait of a Young
Girl); “‘Pigtails’ by Speicher Masterpiece of Month,” Kansas City
Journal-Post, 2 January 1940, 13; “Poses with Picture of Month
at Art Gallery,” Kansas City Journal-Post, 7 January 1940, Sports
sec., 8; “Masterpiece of the Month,” News Flashes (William Rock-
hill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts)
6 (January 1940), 3; Carol Rothschild, “Recent Museum Acquisitions,” Parnassus 12 (May 1940), 49; M. C., “American Painter
Series: XXXII—Pigtails Painted by Eugene Speicher,” American
Girl 23 (October 1940), 4, 50; Edward Alden Jewell, “Speicher
Offers Painting Display,” New York Times, 4 March 1941, 26; Carlyle Burrows, “Paintings by Speicher,” Christian Science Monitor,
8 March 1941, 7; J[ames] W. L[ane], “Eugene Speicher,” Art News
40 (15 March 1941), 44; “Loan Exhibitions,” Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of
Fine Arts) 7 (March 1941), 7; “When Art Study Becomes a Game,
There’s Great Fun at the Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 15 June 1941,
4; Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York: Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, 1941), unpaginated; Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York:
American Artists Group, 1945), unpaginated; “Modern Painters
Are Aided by the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, 13 April 1947,
9D; Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra Program (Kansas City,
Mo., 1947–48 Season), cover; “Task in Art Selection,” Kansas
City Times, 19 June 1948, 5 (as The Head of a Girl); Catalogue
de l’Exposition d’Art Américain Contemporain, exh. cat. (Brussels, Belgium: Galerie Georges Giroux, 1948), 21, pl. 1; “Friends
of Art,” Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and
Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 15 (January 1949), unpaginated (as Portrait of a Girl); NAMA 1949, 204; “Exhibition Shows
Speicher Master of His Medium,” Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News,
30 September 1950, Magazine sec., 10; “Speicher Show in Buffalo,” Art Digest 25 (1 October 1950), 13; Canadian National
Exhibition, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1950), 13;
Eugene Speicher: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Drawings, 1908–1949, exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, 1950), 17, pl. 12; “Eugene Speicher,”
Art Digest 26 (15 December 1951), 21; Exhibition of Paintings and
Drawings, 1908–1951, by Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York:
Century Association, 1951), unpaginated; Winifred Shields, “Key
Role at Art Gallery Filled by Society of 500,” Kansas City Star,
4 January 1953, 8D; NAMA 1959, 257; NAMA 1973, 254; “Tracing the Ups and Downs of the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star,
19 September 1976, 1E; Lee Pentecost, “50 Years of Collecting:
The Friends of Art at the Nelson; A Retrospective Exhibition,”
typescript, 1984, NAMA curatorial files, 5; NAMA 1991, 151–52.
1939, 10 (as Portrait of Young Girl); “To Choose Gallery Gift,” Kansas City Times, 6 December 1939, 13 (as Portrait of a Young Girl);
“Downing Heads Friends of Art,” Kansas City Post, 9 December
1939, 12 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “New Head of the Friends
of Art, and a Gift,” Kansas City Star, 9 December 1939, 3 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “Debate over Art Gift,” Kansas City Times,
9 December 1939, 12 (as Portrait of a Young Girl); “Friends Give
Fine Works by Hurd and Speicher to Kansas City,” Art Digest 14
(15 December 1939), 15; “Friends of Art Give Three Pieces of
Contemporary Work to Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum,”
Kansas City Journal-Post, 19 December 1939, 8B; H[enry] C.
H[askell], “The Friends of Art Present a Portrait to the Gallery,”
Kansas City Star, 29 December 1939, 6 (as Portrait of a Young
Girl); “‘Pigtails’ by Speicher Masterpiece of Month,” Kansas City
Journal-Post, 2 January 1940, 13; “Poses with Picture of Month
at Art Gallery,” Kansas City Journal-Post, 7 January 1940, Sports
sec., 8; “Masterpiece of the Month,” News Flashes (William Rock-
hill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts)
6 (January 1940), 3; Carol Rothschild, “Recent Museum Acquisitions,” Parnassus 12 (May 1940), 49; M. C., “American Painter
Series: XXXII—Pigtails Painted by Eugene Speicher,” American
Girl 23 (October 1940), 4, 50; Edward Alden Jewell, “Speicher
Offers Painting Display,” New York Times, 4 March 1941, 26; Carlyle Burrows, “Paintings by Speicher,” Christian Science Monitor,
8 March 1941, 7; J[ames] W. L[ane], “Eugene Speicher,” Art News
40 (15 March 1941), 44; “Loan Exhibitions,” Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of
Fine Arts) 7 (March 1941), 7; “When Art Study Becomes a Game,
There’s Great Fun at the Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 15 June 1941,
4; Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York: Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, 1941), unpaginated; Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York:
American Artists Group, 1945), unpaginated; “Modern Painters
Are Aided by the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star, 13 April 1947,
9D; Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra Program (Kansas City,
Mo., 1947–48 Season), cover; “Task in Art Selection,” Kansas
City Times, 19 June 1948, 5 (as The Head of a Girl); Catalogue
de l’Exposition d’Art Américain Contemporain, exh. cat. (Brussels, Belgium: Galerie Georges Giroux, 1948), 21, pl. 1; “Friends
of Art,” Gallery News (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and
Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 15 (January 1949), unpaginated (as Portrait of a Girl); NAMA 1949, 204; “Exhibition Shows
Speicher Master of His Medium,” Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News,
30 September 1950, Magazine sec., 10; “Speicher Show in Buffalo,” Art Digest 25 (1 October 1950), 13; Canadian National
Exhibition, exh. cat. (Toronto: Art Gallery of Toronto, 1950), 13;
Eugene Speicher: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils and Drawings, 1908–1949, exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, 1950), 17, pl. 12; “Eugene Speicher,”
Art Digest 26 (15 December 1951), 21; Exhibition of Paintings and
Drawings, 1908–1951, by Eugene Speicher, exh. cat. (New York:
Century Association, 1951), unpaginated; Winifred Shields, “Key
Role at Art Gallery Filled by Society of 500,” Kansas City Star,
4 January 1953, 8D; NAMA 1959, 257; NAMA 1973, 254; “Tracing the Ups and Downs of the Friends of Art,” Kansas City Star,
19 September 1976, 1E; Lee Pentecost, “50 Years of Collecting:
The Friends of Art at the Nelson; A Retrospective Exhibition,”
typescript, 1984, NAMA curatorial files, 5; NAMA 1991, 151–52.
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