Education and Training
Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1915-1917
Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., 1920
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1920-1925

Teachers and Influences
Ida Poteat, art instructor, Wake Forest
Daniel Garber, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Connection to Bucks County
Speight was a resident of Castle Valley, Doylestown Township where he lived in a stone farmhouse on Almshouse Road with his wife, the artist Sarah Blakeslee, from 1943 until 1961.

Colleagues and Affiliations
Daniel Garber, co-faculty member, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Sarah Blakeslee, wife