Peggy Bacon
Birth name	Margaret Frances Bacon
Born	May 2, 1895 Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States
Died	January 4, 1987 (aged 91)
Nationality	American
Field	painting, illustration

Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer.

[edit] Biography

Bacon was born May 2, 1895 in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artists Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth (née Chase).^[1][2] The eldest of three children, Bacon's two younger brothers died in infancy leaving her an only child.^[1] Between the ages of nine and eleven, Bacon lived with her parents in Paris and Montreaux-sur-Mer, France.^[2] She had a close relationship with her parents and described her childhood as "delightful".^[2] She was taught by tutors until the age of 14 when she attended Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey.^[2]

From 1915 to 1920, Bacon studied at the Art Students League in New York under George Bellows, John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller.^[3][4][5] It was there that her parents had met and around 1916, that Bacon met her future husband painter Alexander Brook.^[2][6] In 1919, they left New York to study at the Art Students League summer school in Woodstock, where they were taught by Andrew Dasburg.^[6][2] They married in May 1920 and moved to London, England, where Peggy gave birth to their daughter Belinda.^[2][6]

During her career, Bacon contributed to Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and illustrated more than 60 books.^[7] In 1934, she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.^[8]

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Berardi, Marianne; Christine Carmody, Courtney Case. HGAF Fine Art Dallas Auction Catalog #652. Heritage Capital Corporation. pp. 90. ISBN 1599671425. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tKJkbZ7kG48C. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} Cummings, Paul (1973-05-08). "Interview with Peggy Bacon". Smithsonian Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/bacon73.htm. 
3. ^ Henri, Robert; Marian Wardle, Sarah Burns (2005). American Women Modernists. Rutgers University Press. pp. 105. ISBN 0813536847. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Tl0_m4YaXqkC. 
4. ^ Sloan, John (2000). John Sloan on Drawing and Painting. Courier Dover Publications. pp. vi. ISBN 0486409473. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Amv-KoQm4cYC. 
5. ^ Hills, Patricia; Roberta K. Tarbell (1980). The figurative tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art. University of Delaware Press. pp. 70. ISBN 0874131847. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YD92bUmnJm8C. 
6. ^ ^{a b c} Love, Richard H.; Carl William Peters (1999). Carl W. Peters. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 370. ISBN 1580460240. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIn6EkBlJSUC. 
7. ^ National Museum of American Art (1995). American Artists in Photographic Portraits. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 3. ISBN 0486286592. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XJDS-7hoCZAC. 
8. ^ "1934 Fellows Page". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. http://www.gf.org/34fellow.html. Retrieved 2008-08-15.