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Charles Roswell Bacon BIOGRAPHY
1868 New York - 1913 (committed suicide). Known for: Landscape, genre painting, design.
The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator.... Read full biography
The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator. A native of New York, he met his wife Elizabeth Chase at the newly-formed Art Students League in New... Read full biography
The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator. A native of New York, he met his wife Elizabeth Chase at the newly-formed Art Students League in New York where they took classes under Kenyon Cox before heading off to Paris to study for a year under Lefebvre and Collin. Upon their return, they married and settled for awhile in Ridgefield,... Read full biography
The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator. A native of New York, he met his wife Elizabeth Chase at the newly-formed Art Students League in New York where they took classes under Kenyon Cox before heading off to Paris to study for a year under Lefebvre and Collin. Upon their return, they married and settled for awhile in Ridgefield, Connecticut where they started a family. Their first child, Peggy, was followed by two boys who died in infancy. This left Peggy as an only child. The three of them thus became a very tight-knit family - something Peggy Bacon described with tremendous... Read full biography
The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator. A native of New York, he met his wife Elizabeth Chase at the newly-formed Art Students League in New York where they took classes under Kenyon Cox before heading off to Paris to study for a year under Lefebvre and Collin. Upon their return, they married and settled for awhile in Ridgefield, Connecticut where they started a family. Their first child, Peggy, was followed by two boys who died in infancy. This left Peggy as an only child. The three of them thus became a very tight-knit family - something Peggy Bacon described with tremendous enthusiasm when she was interviewed by Pau Cummings for the Archives of American Art artist interview project in 1973. She told... Read full biography
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The landscape and figure painter Charles Roswell Bacon was the talented and colorful father of Peggy Bacon (1875-1957), the well-known 20th century painter, poet, printmaker, author and illustrator. A native of New York, he met his wife Elizabeth Chase at the newly-formed Art Students League in New York where they took classes under Kenyon Cox before heading off to Paris to study for a year under Lefebvre and Collin. Upon their return, they married and settled for awhile in Ridgefield, Connecticut where they started a family. Their first child, Peggy, was followed by two boys who died in infancy. This left Peggy as an only child.
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