1. Margaret Frances Bacon was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures.
21 Facts About Peggy Bacon
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Peggy Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint and published her first caricatures in the student magazine.
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Peggy Bacon earned many awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.
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Peggy Bacon was the first of three children but raised an only child after her two younger brothers died in infancy.
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Peggy Bacon's parents were both artists and met while attending the Art Students League in New York.
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Peggy Bacon's father, an errand boy for Tiffany's during his childhood, painted landscapes and figures in adulthood while her mother was a miniaturist.
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Peggy Bacon's parents moved frequently and would have tutors for Peggy Bacon wherever they went.
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Between the ages of 9 and 11 Peggy Bacon lived with her parents in France, first in Paris and then in a house in Picardy at Montreaux-sur-Mer.
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Peggy Bacon's mother did not believe in formal schooling and as a result, for most of her childhood, Peggy Bacon had tutors and studied only subjects of interest to her, such as Latin, Greek, mythology, ancient history and geography of the ancient world.
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At the age of fourteen, Peggy Bacon began attending Kent Place School, a boarding school in Summit, New Jersey.
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In 1913, the same year she graduated, Peggy Bacon's father killed himself in his studio in New York.
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Peggy Bacon had overcome alcoholism but was susceptible to bouts of depression.
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Peggy Bacon had always been interested in art and from a very young age her early artistic interests were encouraged and supported by her parents.
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From 1915 until 1920, Peggy Bacon studied painting with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, George Bellows, and others at the Art Students League.
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Around 1917 Peggy Bacon became interested in printmaking and taught herself drypoint as there was no one teaching etching at the Art Students League at the time.
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Peggy Bacon was featured in solo shows in prominent galleries such as Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, the Weyhe Gallery, and the Downtown Gallery.
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Peggy Bacon went on to illustrate over 60 books, 19 of which she wrote, including a successful mystery book, The Inward Eye, which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1952 for best novel.
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Peggy Bacon had over thirty solo exhibitions at such venues as Montross Gallery, Alfred Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery, and the Downtown Gallery.
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In 1934 Peggy Bacon was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in the graphic arts.
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In 1947, Peggy Bacon was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1969.
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Peggy Bacon died in 1987 at the age of 91 in Kennebunk, Maine.