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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Books & Publications (9)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index