Francis Speight

Life and Orange County connections

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1. April 23 to May 3, 1931 The North Carolina Association of Professional Artists holds its first exhibition, in the music building The association's first show, which the Weekly called the first exhibition ever held by the state's professional artists, opened for ten days in the University music building with oils, watercolors, prints and drawings by Elliott Daingerfield, Francis Speight, Charles Baskerville, Mabel Pugh, Isabelle Bowen, Mary deB. Graves, William Steene and others. Clement Strudwick of Hillsboro showed portraits of himself, of Mrs. Strudwick and of his brother in a stage role. People: Francis Speight, Mary deB. (Mary de Berniere) Graves Place: Music building, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Clement Strudwick, Elliott Daingerfield, Charles Baskerville, William SteeneSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 24, 1931, p. 1
2. June to July 1934 Francis Speight teaches a painting class in the University summer school The landscape painter Francis Speight taught art during the first summer term, a course the Weekly called an innovation, and arranged a showing of paintings by contemporary American artists in the Hill Music Hall lobby. At the end of the term his 21 students exhibited 64 pictures in oil, charcoal, watercolor and pastel. Place: Peabody Hall and Hill Music Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 3, 1934, p. 3