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Francis Speight

Biography

Achievements

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Francis Speight

 

       
    Major Solo Exhibitions
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 1952.
Taggart, Jorgensen, Putnam Gallery, Washington, DC, 1986

Major Group Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1930.
Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Hartford, Connecticut, 1932.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1951, 1957.
National Academy of Design, New York, New York , 1927-1932, 1935, 1937-1944, 1948, 1950.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1926-1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1966.
50th Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibition, The Phillip's Mill Community Association, New Hope, Pennsylvania , 1979.
Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA, 1938.
Society of Washington Artists, Washington, DC, 1929

Major Collections
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Encyclopedia Brittanica Collection
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Montpelier Museum of Art, Montpelier, Vermont
National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Toronto Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
United States Post Office, Gastonia, North Carolina (WPA)
West Chester Art Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania

   
 
   

Teaching and Professional Appointments
Art Instructor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1925-1976 (after 1961, summers only)
Artist in residence, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 1961
Delegate, Third National Convention, National Commission for UNESCO
Visiting Instructor at University of North Carolina, Shrivenham American Army University in England, Lehigh University and De Paul University

Major Awards
Cresson Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1923, 1925
Gold Medal, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1926
First Prize, Landscape, Society of Washington Artists, 1929
The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Prize, 1930
First Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, 1930
M.V. Kohnstamm Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1930
Landscape Prize. Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1932
Third W.A. Clarke Prize, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1937
Gold Medal, Philadelphia Sketch Club, 1938
Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1940
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fellowship Prize, 1940
Second Altman Prize, Landscape, National Academy of Design, 1951
First Altman Prize Landscape, National Academy of Design, 1953
$1,000 Grant, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1953
Orbrig Altman Prize, National Academy of Design, 1955

Affiliations and Memberships
Member, National Academy of Design, 1940

 
           
                       
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