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...incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...
...League by washing brushes and sweeping floors, studied under the late John H. Twachtman, then in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens. His first real encouragement came from venerable Winslow Homer. He made friends with three contemporaries who were quick to gain nationwide reputations: George Bellows, Robert Henri, Eugene Speicher, and all of them, the latter particularly, influenced his work...
...William A. Clark prize went to Eugene Speicher for his famed portrait of a blacksmith, Red Moore, a familiar headliner of the Whitney Museum show of four months ago (TIME, Dec. 10). Other widely known pictures: Guy Pène du Bois' Sunburned Nude; William J. Glackens' Soda Fountain (TIME, March 11); John Steuart Curry's Line Storm (TIME, Dec. 24); Bernard Karfiol's Seated Nude. More of a novelty was a Renoiresque Girl at the Piano by Frederick Frieseke which won the $1,500 Clark second prize...
Outstanding among the artists who find just plain painting sufficient excitement is Eugene Speicher. His portrait of "Red" Moore, a brawny New England blacksmith seated in a Windsor chair by his anvil, preached no message at all, was a bargain , for any collector at any price...
...lissier, Lapébie and Speicher are sprint specialists. Best climber in the race is Vicente Treuba, "Le Roi des Montagnes,'' a minuscule Spaniard who propels his 110-lb. body up the steepest slopes without leaving the saddle...