Muriel Branegan Bacon was born in Grass Valley, California in 1909. Her parents settled in nearby Nevada City in 1852 (during the gold rush days). She first studied painting under scholarship in San... Read full biography
Muriel Branegan Bacon was born in Grass Valley, California in 1909. Her parents settled in nearby Nevada City in 1852 (during the gold rush days). She first studied painting under scholarship in San Francisco at the California School of Fine Arts. Under National Scholarship, she went on to study at... Read full biography
Muriel Branegan Bacon was born in Grass Valley, California in 1909. Her parents settled in nearby Nevada City in 1852 (during the gold rush days). She first studied painting under scholarship in San Francisco at the California School of Fine Arts. Under National Scholarship, she went on to study at the Arts Student League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller, before moving to Paris. In Paris, Bacon completed her formal studies at the Academie Julien. During her Paris period, she was exposed to... Read full biography
Muriel Branegan Bacon was born in Grass Valley, California in 1909. Her parents settled in nearby Nevada City in 1852 (during the gold rush days). She first studied painting under scholarship in San Francisco at the California School of Fine Arts. Under National Scholarship, she went on to study at the Arts Student League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller, before moving to Paris. In Paris, Bacon completed her formal studies at the Academie Julien. During her Paris period, she was exposed to and influenced by the vivid colors of the Fauvists. An adventurist spirit, Bacon traveled and painted in Hawaii, Africa, Pacific Oceania, Europe, California and the American Southwest. In 1939/40 Bacon exhibited at the Golden Gate International... Read full biography
Muriel Branegan Bacon was born in Grass Valley, California in 1909. Her parents settled in nearby Nevada City in 1852 (during the gold rush days). She first studied painting under scholarship in San Francisco at the California School of Fine Arts. Under National Scholarship, she went on to study at the Arts Student League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller, before moving to Paris. In Paris, Bacon completed her formal studies at the Academie Julien. During her Paris period, she was exposed to and influenced by the vivid colors of the Fauvists. An adventurist spirit, Bacon traveled and painted in Hawaii, Africa, Pacific Oceania, Europe, California and the American Southwest. In 1939/40 Bacon exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition. In the 1930's, she married a Mr. Bacon and they lived briefly in Sausalito, California. In the late 1940s and 1950s, she m... Read full biography
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