Gene embarked on his career in the early 1970s in Northern California. He watched his brother Loran selling his work successfully in local art shows. He realized his love and passion that poured into his art and began selling his work in Bay Area street shows.

Gene Speck's paintings reflect his love of Western America's wide open spaces, large mountains, and deserts; all replicated on canvas using oil paints in natural shades. He puts specific emphasis on the pure light of gloaming, dusk, and dawn in his landscapes.

Gene Speck is a contemporary American landscape painter. His romanticized paintings of Western American scenery often include structures such as indigenous Native American encampments or barn scenes at twilight, painted in earthy, dusky tones.

Jun 15, 2024 · Gene Speck's paintings reflect his love of Western America's wide open spaces, large mountains, and deserts; all replicated on canvas using oil paints in natural shades. He puts specific emphasis on the pure light of gloaming, dusk, and dawn in his landscapes.

Gene Speck is an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1936. Gene Speck's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 160 USD to 4,688 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

As a nationally known artist, he has shown in galleries across the United States, including Aspen since 1992. He now lives in the peace and quiet of Nevada. Speck’s paintings are nostalgic in that he paints scenes from the Great Plains that he saw all around him as a child.

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Jan 15, 2018 · Speck’s ability to immerse himself in his paintings helps him to generate artwork with soul. Smoke from a campfire seems to waver, as birds wheel above Indians clustered around it. As the painting draws you in, you swear you can hear wings flapping. Gene Speck. Trap Line Cabin Oil 14″x11″

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