Bacon, Peggy

Bacon, Peggy (Margaret Francis)

(1895–1987) printmaker, painter, author; born in Ridgefield, Conn. Based in New York City, she studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League, New York (1915–20), and began her work in painting, drypoint etching, and lithography. She illustrated many books for children and adults, and published her witty caricatures of famous literary and artistic personalities, such as Off With Their Heads (1934). She participated in the art colony at Woodstock, N.Y., (1920), returned to New York City (1923), then settled in Maine, where she continued her work for periodicals and resumed a painting career (1950s) she had abandoned in 1920.

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