Peggy Bacon

Visual Artist

1895 – 1987

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Who was Peggy Bacon?

Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s.

The aim of a caricature is to heighten and intensify to the point of absurdity all the subject's most striking attributes; a caricature should not necessarily stop at ridiculing the features but should include in its extravagant appraisal whatever of the figure may be needed to explain the personality, the whole drawing imparting a spicy and clairvoyant comment upon the subject's peculiarities.

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Born
May 2, 1895
Ridgefield
Also known as
  • Margaret Frances Bacon
Spouses
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Art Students League of New York
Lived in
  • Ridgefield
Died
Jan 4, 1987
Kennebunk

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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