''Susan'', portrait of a woman sitting in a chair, signed lower left: Eugene Speicher, titled on a gum label affixed verso, titled again and dated on an exhibition label affixed to the stretcher: 1936, oil on canvas, 38'' H x 33'' W, est: $3000/5000
Exhibited: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, ''American and British Paintings From the Edward Root Collection'', February 12 - April 12, 1953; ''The Art Triangle: Artist, Dealer, Collector'' traveling exhibition: The Munson-Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, 19 March -30 April, 1989; and the Burchfield Art Center, 13 May - 25 June 1989, lot 85. Literature: ?The Best Kind of Life - Edward W. Root as Teacher, Collector and Naturalist'?, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 2007, p. 54. Provenance: Private Collection, Pasadena, CA

Visual: Generally good condition. Craquelure scattered throughout. Stretcher bar crease across the center. The canvas is slightly loose and rippled in the four corners. Blacklight: No evidence of restoration under blacklight.