"Head of a Man". Pencil on paper, signed lower right corner. In 1936 New York artist Eugene Edward Speicher was named Esquire magazine's "Most Important Living Artist." Speicher studied in New York with several notable artists including William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper and George Bellows. Speicher was said to limit his portraiture to six portraits per year, in order to spend significant amounts of time working on landscapes and figure painting. Speicher has been honored with many awards including the Beck Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as well as the Potter Palmer Gold Medal from the Art Institute of Chicago. Overall measurement is apprx 21" x 27-1/2". Paper measures apprx 12-1/2" x 19".
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