Portrait of Eugene Speicher, first stone
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Portrait of Eugene Speicher, first stone

Bellows, George, 1882-1925 · 1923–1924

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

In an introductory essay to the exhibition catalogue for the Art Institute of Chicago in 1946, the artist's closest friend, Eugene Speicher, wrote the following: He painted my portrait and made some lithographs of me, and I painted him. The oil portraits were destroyed; we talked too much! (Mason)

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