Lucy Angeline Bacon was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes.
12 Facts About Lucy Bacon
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Lucy Bacon studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
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Lucy Bacon is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.
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Lucy Bacon was related to Robert K Vickery, through the marriage of her niece Ruth.
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Lucy Bacon studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
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Lucy Bacon then studied with Camille Pissarro, as advised by American painter Mary Cassatt.
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Lucy Bacon then moved to Eragny and made Impressionist paintings.
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Lucy Bacon moved to California in the hope of improving chronic illness which limited her ability to paint.
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Lucy Bacon taught at Washburn Preparatory School in San Jose and painted from her home studio.
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In 1905, while Lucy Bacon renounced her painting career and devoted herself to the Christian Science religion, possibly finding it eased her health problems, and she continued to teach art.
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Lucy Bacon was a member of the Indian Fair Committee of the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs and Eastern Association on Indian Affairs in 1927, which exhibited works by Native American artists.
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Lucy Bacon's painting, Garden Landscape made between 1894 and 1896, is among the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.