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PEGGY BACON – ORIGINAL DRYPOINT
“Acheles”, 1929
New York, New York

Margaret Frances “Peggy” Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987)
Signed in pencil and annotated with title, printed in black ink on cream paper.

Margaret Frances “Peggy” Bacon was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artists Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth (Chase) and spent much of her youth traveling internationally with them, to paint. From 1915-1920 Bacon studied painting with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, George Bellows and others at the Art Students League. While at the League, Bacon became friends with several other artists. Her circle of friends and acquaintances included Dorothea Schwarz (Greenbaum), Anne Rector (Duffy), Betty Burroughs (Woodhouse), Katherine Schmidt (Kuniyoshi Shubert), Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Molly Luce, Dorothy Varian, Edmund Duffy, Dick Dyer, David Morrison, and Andrew Dasburg.

Around 1917 Bacon also became interested in printmaking and taught herself drypoint as there was no one teaching etching at the Art Students League at the time. Drypoint was Bacon’s primary medium until 1927, and pastels until 1945. Although Bacon had trained as a painter, she eventually became famous for her drypoint caricatures and satirical scenes of New Yorkers and others engaged in everyday activities.

Bacon’s popular drawings appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, New Republic, Fortune, and Vanity Fair and she exhibited in galleries and museums frequently. Bacon had over thirty solo exhibitions at such venues as Montross Gallery, Alfred Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery, and the Downtown Gallery. In 1934 Bacon was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.

She exhibited widely and her work can be found in many major collections including The Whitney, Boston, Cleveland, and the Met Museums.

In 1942 she was granted an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1980 the Academy awarded her a gold medal for her lifelong contribution to illustration and graphic art. In 1947, Bacon was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1969. In December 1975, the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, honored Bacon with a year long retrospective exhibition titled, “Peggy Bacon: Personalities and Places.”
In addition to her artistic career, Bacon taught extensively during the 1930s and 1940s at various institutions, including the Fieldston School, the Art Students League, Hunter College, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and summers at the School of Music and Art in Stowe, Vermont.

Inventory A-W-3348

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