About the Artwork
Torso of Hilda
1927
Eugene Speicher
1883 - 1962
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 35 × 31 1/2 inches (88.9 × 80 cm) Framed: 43 3/4 × 40 × 2 inches (111.1 × 101.6 × 5.1 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
28.142
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Markings
Signed, lower right: Eugene Speicher
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Provenance
Eugene Speicher
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, Clyde. “Painting by Eugene Speicher.” Bulletin of the DIA 10, 6 (March 1929): p. 75 (ill.).
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Painting. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1929, p. 15, no. 108 (ill.).
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. Eugene Speicher. New York, 1931, p. 20 (ill.).
A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1934, no. 690.
Burroughs, Alan. “Limners and Likenesses.” 1936.
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1937, no. 190.
Fine Arts. Long Island City, NY, 1938. [exact title unknown; per letter in curatorial file]
Two Hundred Years of American Painting. Exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, 1946, no. 25 (ill.).
Eugene Speicher: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1950, p. 16, no. 7.
75th Anniversary Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1951, pp. 47-48, no. 48.
American Realists. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Hamilton. Ontario, 1961, no. 57.
Eugene Speicher: 1883-1962. Exh. cat., American Academy of Arts and Letters. New York, 1963, no. 8 (ill.).
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Eugene Speicher, Torso of Hilda, 1927, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.142.
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