Artist
Eugene Speicher
born Buffalo, NY 1883-died Woodstock, NY 1962
Painter. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., where he also studied with Frank DuMond and William Merritt Chase. Despite his early association with modern American realism, he executed his portraits, figure paintings of girls and women, floral still lifes and nudes in a traditional academic style.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)