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Peggy Bacon

(Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987)

Description: Peggy Bacon was a noted writer and art educator as well as painter, illustrator and printmaker. She was known for her sharp wit as an illustrator of children's books and for her satirical caricatures of the New York City art world in the 1920s and 1930s with contributions made to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. In all, she illustrated more than 60 books, including several publications of her own short stories and poetry. Creator/Photographer: Peter A. Juley & Son Medium: Black and white photographic print Dimensions: 8 in x 10 in Culture: American Persistent URL: [1] Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum    Native name Smithsonian American Art Museum Parent institution Smithsonian Institution  Location Washington, D.C., United States of America Coordinates 38° 53′ 52″ N, 77° 01′ 24″ W   Established 1829 Website http://americanart.si.edu/ Authority file : Q1192305 VIAF: 146976922 ISNI: 0000000122847868 ULAN: 500311465 LCCN: n81062959 NLA: 36217051 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q1192305 Collection: Peter A. Juley & Son Collection - The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection is comprised of 127,000 black-and-white photographic negatives documenting the works of more than 11,000 American artists. Throughout its long history, from 1896 to 1975, the Juley firm served as the largest and most respected fine arts photography firm in New York. The Juley Collection, acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1975, constitutes a unique visual record of American art sometimes providing the only photographic documentation of altered, damaged, or lost works. Included in the collection are over 4,700 photographic portraits of artists. Accession number: J0001287
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Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987, contrib.: Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1921), ed. by Carl Van Vechten, also contrib. by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Algernon Blackwood, Honoré de Balzac, Booth Tarkington, G. H. Powell, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas A. Janvier, W. H. Hudson, W. L. Alden, and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
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