Spring, 1930

Artist Francis Speight American, 1896–1989

Date1930

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions39 5/8 x 50 5/16 in. (100.6 x 127.8 cm)
Frame: 45 5/16 x 53 7/8 in. (115.1 x 136.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Warner L. Atkins

Object numberG.81.12.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Philadelphia, 1930; collection of the artist. Mr. and Mrs. Warner L. Atkins; given to NCMA, 1981.Published ReferencesEdgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collection (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 288.

"Francis Speight," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1985), 13.

"The Nomination of Francis Speight for the Oliver Max Gardner Award," East Carolina University, Greenville, 1975 (unpublished manuscript in library artist file).
Exhibition HistoryPittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, "Thirtieth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings," October 15-December 6, 1931, cat. no. 1

University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State Museum of Art, "Manayunk and Other Places: Paintings and Drawings by Francis Speight," September 8-October 27, 1974, cat. no. 14.

Greenville, NC, Gray Art Gallery, "Francis Speight: Selections from His Works," 1984, cat.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Tribute to Francis Speight," April 18-June 30, 1985.

Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World," April 25-June 28, 1998; Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, September 12-November 8, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art,November 22, 1998-January 17, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, March 10-April 30, 1999, brochure (Outreach exhibition).

Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, to be displayed with the permanent collection as part of the inaugural exhibition, April 21, 2002-March 30, 2003
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