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Artist
Francis Speight
(American, 1896 - 1989)
Date1932
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 27 x 31 1/4 in. (68.6 x 79.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Clairborne T. Smith Jr.
Object number73.72
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right
Exhibition HistoryTelling Stories: Rethinking American Art at the Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, June 13 – November 29, 2026; Staff Picks: A Selection of Palmer Favorites, Palmer Museum of Art, June 3 – September 18, 2022.ProvenanceThe artist; Gift of Clairborne T. Smith Jr. Published ReferencesYork, Maruice C., The Privilege to Paint: The Lives of Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee, Greenville, NC: Greenville Museum of Art, 2002, pp. 17, 18 (illustrated), 134, 107 n.17 and 77-79, 91, 93.
The Nomination of Francis Speight for the Oliver Max Gardner Award, 1/15/74 and 75, East Carolina University, 1975.
Grafly, Norma, "Francis Speight," Magazine of Art, May, 1938, 261-263 and 311-312 (Coal Slag Heap, illustrated, p. 262).