The Privilege to Paint: The Lives of Francis Speight and Sarah Blakeslee

by Maurice C. York

In 1938, the Magazine of Art, a monthly journal published by the American Federation of Arts, carried a series of articles about contemporary American artists. The essay about landscape painter Francis Speight said, All that he asks of life is the privilege to paint. Drawing from this quotation, the Greenville (NC) Museum of Art has published an illustrated biography entitled The Privilege to Paint that documents the lives and art of Francis Speight...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971391009
• ISBN13: 9780971391000
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Greenville Museum of Art
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.3"