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Peggy Brook (Margaret) Bacon

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Peggy Brook (Margaret) Bacon (1895 - 1987) was active/lived in New York, Maine, Connecticut.  Peggy Bacon is known for Genre painting, caricature, illustrations.

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 A print maker, illustrator, and author of children's books, Peggy Bacon later turned exclusively to fine art painting in watercolor, pastel, and oil. Her 1934 book of caricatures, Off With Their Heads, established her as a leading satirist.

Much of her work is satirical and lighthearted and frequently a commentary on the New York art world in the 1920s and 1930s. She also chose many ordinary events in the lives of city people, giving these pieces a wry twist.

She was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artist parents, Charles Roswell Bacon and Elizabeth Chase, and spent much time in her youth with her parents seeking painting locations. They visited in Nassau, New Hampshire, France and London, and she also had an opportunity to meet many of her parents' artist friends.

She studied at the Art Student's League between 1914 and 1920. There creating drypoints, first completed in 1919, she was especially influenced by the realistic prints of her teachers John Sl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3351 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  89
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Peggy Brook (Margaret) Bacon
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Ogunquit Museum Celebrates August 2003 Culver, Michael Yes
89 Book References for Peggy Brook (Margaret) Bacon
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Lewis, David A; Michael T. Ricker Rico Lebrun, Consulting the Tangible World (Ex. Catalogue for Griffith Gallery, Austin State University, TX)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2001 Flint, Janet A. Peggy Bacon A Checklist of the Prints 80 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1998 Calo, Mary Ann Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings 328 No
1996 Strueber, Michael (Director) Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies 118 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Robertson, Bruce Representing America Ken Trevey Collection American Realist Prints
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Lent, John A Animation, Caricature...Cartoons in the U S A and Canada/A Bibliography 415 No
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Greenberg, Clement; Dr. John O'Brian, Editor Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (4 Volumes) 622 No
1993 Todd, Ellen Wiley The "New Woman" Revised Painting and Gender Politics on 14th Street 414 Yes
1991 Gilbert Anne American Illustrator Art Official Price Guide 1991 Yes
1991 Sternberg, Paul E Art by American Women Collection Louise and Alan Sellars
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Weber, Bruce Drawn from Tradition: American Drawings and Watercolors: From the Collection of Susan and Herbert Adler, Neuberger Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 185 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro) American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum 94 Yes
1987 Evers, Alf Woodstock: History of An American Town 750 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Johnson, Deborah J Whistler to Weidenaar American Prints 1870-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1987 Tragard, Louise; Patricia Hart and W.L. Copithorne A Century of Color, 1886-1986: Ogunquit, Maine's Art Colony
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1987 Woodstock Art Association Woodstock's Art Heritage Permanent Collection Woodstock A A 176 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Cummings, Paul Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1984 Watrous, James American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980 334 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Davidson, Marshall The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History 256 Yes
1983 Kaplan, Ellen Prints A Collector's Guide 253 No
1983 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Gerdts, William H The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Sordoni Art Gallery Students of the Eight American Masters 1910-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 30 No
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1981 Wooden, Howard E. (Text) The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters, 1930-48 Wichita Art Museum Exhibition, May 3-June 14, 1981
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1979 Yochim, Louise Dunn Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists 297 No
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Marling, Karal Ann Woodstock, An American Art Colony 1902-1977
(Exhibition catalog)		 220 No
1976 Bader, Barbara American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within 615 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 University of Minnesota The American Scene Urban & Rural Regionalists, 30s and 40s
(Exhibition catalog)		 39 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 National Collection/Fine Arts Peggy Bacon Personalities and Places
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1974 Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro) From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 No
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1970 Brown, Milton W American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression 244 No
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1961 Mahony, Bertha E (others) Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 527 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Sports Illustrated Sport in Art From American Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1954 Leeper, John Palmer Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute/Selective Catalogue 92 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1947 Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman Treasury of American Drawings 176 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1945 Crane, Aimee Portrait of America 204 Yes
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1939 Craven, Thomas (editor) A Treasury of American Prints 100 Etchings and Lithographs by Living Artists 210 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1938 Murrell, William History of American Graphic Humor 1865-1938 267 No
1937 Logan, Josephine Hancock Sanity in Art 127 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1934 Cahill, Holger/Alfred H Barr Art in America In Modern Times (1865-1934) 110 No
1930 Jewell, Edward Alden Americans Modern Art 152 No
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