Biografie von A. James SPEYER (XX)

Birth place: Pittsburgh, PA

Addresses: Chicago, IL

Profession: Art administrator, painter

Studied: CI (B.S.); Chelsea Polytechnique, London, England; Sorbonne; Illinois Inst. Tech. (M.A.) with Mies van der Rohe.

Exhibited: Pittsburgh AA, 1936 (prize)

Comments: Positions: private architect, 1946-57; Chicago corresp., Art News Magazine, 1955-57; cur. contemp. art, AIC, 1961-. Teaching: Illinois Inst. Tech., 1946-61; Nat. Univ. Athens, 1957-60; Ford Found. seminar, AIC. Collections arranged: Am. Bi-Ann., 20th C. Sculpture Exh., 1967 & Mies van der Rohe Retrospective, 1968, AIC.

Sources: WW73; WW40.