PEGGY BACON (1895 1987) Girl Lacing her Shoe

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PEGGY BACON (1895 - 1987)
Girl Lacing her Shoe.

Pencil on paper, 1919. 200x288 mm; 7¾x11⅛ inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.

Provenance
Private collection, Sandy Brook, Maine.
Collection of Gerald Ferguson, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Thence by descent to current owner, New York.

Exhibited
"Peggy Bacon: A Life in Art," Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, January 31 - March 6, 1988.

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Peggy Bacon's works are often characterized by a humorous and sensitive attunement to aspects of the mundane. Taught at the Art Students League, she studied under John Sloan, Kenneth Hayes Miller and George Bellows. She worked as an illustrator, lithographer, portraitist and writer and was prolifically published as a contributor to magazines such as The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, as well as in the many books she wrote. The present work captures the artists' ability to heighten and emphasize both nuanced emotional states and subtle actions in her subjects.