Artist

Peggy Bacon

born Ridgefield, CT 1895-died Kennebunk, ME 1987
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Peggy Bacon, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001287
Also known as
  • Margaret Frances Bacon
  • Mrs. Alexander Brook
Born
Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
Died
Kennebunk, Maine, United States
Active in
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Painter, portrait painter, caricaturist, illustrator, lithographer, writer, art educator. Peggy Bacon studied with John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Her sharp wit was evident in her contributions to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair as well as in the more than 60 books she illustrated, including several publications of her own short stories and poetry.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (3 items)

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The Child of Mary
Artist
Date1896
oil on canvas
Not on view
Elliott Daingerfield, Return from the Farm, ca. 1915-1920, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1943.11.5
Return from the Farm
Artist
Dateca. 1915-1920
oil on canvas
Not on view
Elliott Daingerfield, Bringing Home the New Born Lamb, 1890, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1987.63
Bringing Home the New Born Lamb
Artist
Date1890
oil on canvas
Not on view