Bacon, Peggy, b. 1895 d. 1987
Author, Illustrator, Painter, Poet, PrintmakerCape Porpoise, Me., Cross River, N.Y. (Show Bio)
Oral history interview with Peggy Bacon, 1973 May 8
Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels; analog 5 in.
Transcript: 39 p.
Interview of Peggy Bacon conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art, in Cape Porpoise, Maine, 1973 May 8. Bacon speaks of her family and educational background; summer art classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York; the Art Students League; the Provincetown Players; working in black and white;
her drawings, drypoints, etchings and caricatures; her illustrated books including OFF WITH THEIR HEADS; cats as subjects; and her husband Alexander Brook. She recalls George Bellows, Andrew Dasburg, Edith Gregor Halpert, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Jonas Lie, Kenneth Hayes Miller and others.
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
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