Tuesday, January 25, 2022 – Her works showed humor at the human conditions
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022
581st Issue
Celebrating
PEGGY BACON
Painter, portrait painter, caricaturist,
illustrator, lithographer, writer, art
educator.
Peggy Bacon studied with John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Her sharp wit was evident in her contributions to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair as well as in the more than 60 books she illustrated, including several publications of her own short stories and poetry.
Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
Peggy Bacon, Antique Shop, 1943, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.16
Peggy Bacon, Tired Eyes, 1935, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ruth and Jacob Kainen, 1977.108.2
Peggy Bacon, George C. Miller, The Titan, 1929, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Benedict, 1974.37.1
Peggy Bacon, Promenade Deck, 1920, drypoint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frank McClure, 1974.86.1
Peggy Bacon, Post Haste, ca. 1935, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.13
Peggy Bacon, The Supply Store, 1918, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.8
Peggy Bacon, Carrie, 1918, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.7
Peggy Bacon, Washington Square, 1918, drypoint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.9
It’s a very busy week for Nellie Bly. Tomorrow – January 25 (1885)—marks the date that her first newspaper article was published – The Girl Puzzle in The Pittsburg* Dispatch – namesake of the monument. It also the day in 1890 when Nellie Bly returned from her record-breaking race around the world. As you know, Thursday January 27 is the 100th anniversary of her death so this is some publicity around that as a celebration of her legacy.
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/02/15/clone-rihs-lecture-footsteps-nellie-bly
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TIMES SQUARE MURAL, 1997
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
TIMES SQUARE SUBWAY STATION INSTALLED 2002
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