Ninon Lacey
Born: 1923 - Keene, New Hampshire
Died: 2022 - Hamden, Connecticut
Known for: Drawings and prints

Ninon Lacey graduated from the Boston Museum School in 1947 where she met her late husband Bernard Chaet (1924-2012). In the 1950s they visited their friend and fellow artist Barbara Swan (who also studied at the Museum School) and her husband Alan Fink in Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

In 1968, captivated by the “space and light of Cape Ann,” Lacey and Chaet purchased a modest white clapboard house in Pigeon Cove—which had once belonged to Barbara Swan’s ancestors—and made Rockport their summer home.

Ninon Lacey's artwork focuses on intimate and serene subjects. Her careful rendering of flowers and grasses ...