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1857 Pitcairn, New York - 1932 San Francisco, California. Known for: Impressionist floral landscape and still life painting.
Born in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon showed great promise as a young woman painter with direct ties to French Impressionism. However, when she was in her late 40s, she redirected her energies to... Read full biography
Born in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon showed great promise as a young woman painter with direct ties to French Impressionism. However, when she was in her late 40s, she redirected her energies to become a Christian Science practitioner and abandoned her art career. Only minimal biographical... Read full biography
Born in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon showed great promise as a young woman painter with direct ties to French Impressionism. However, when she was in her late 40s, she redirected her energies to become a Christian Science practitioner and abandoned her art career. Only minimal biographical information about her has been found by researchers, but she is credited with historical significance to California art because, as a student of Camille Pissarro, she is "the only California artist who is... Read full biography
Born in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon showed great promise as a young woman painter with direct ties to French Impressionism. However, when she was in her late 40s, she redirected her energies to become a Christian Science practitioner and abandoned her art career. Only minimal biographical information about her has been found by researchers, but she is credited with historical significance to California art because, as a student of Camille Pissarro, she is "the only California artist who is known to have studied directly with one of the French Impressionists" (Gerdts 111). Bacon began her art training in New York City at the Art Students League and then in 1892, went to Paris where she enrolled at the Academie Colarossi. However, she was... Read full biography
Born in Pitcairn, New York, Lucy Bacon showed great promise as a young woman painter with direct ties to French Impressionism. However, when she was in her late 40s, she redirected her energies to become a Christian Science practitioner and abandoned her art career. Only minimal biographical information about her has been found by researchers, but she is credited with historical significance to California art because, as a student of Camille Pissarro, she is "the only California artist who is known to have studied directly with one of the French Impressionists" (Gerdts 111). Bacon began her art training in New York City at the Art Students League and then in 1892, went to Paris where she enrolled at the Academie Colarossi. However, she was discontent with her studies there and asked expatriate-American painter Mary Cassatt for art instruction. Cassatt agreed and also used her... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Europe
- •France Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Teacher
- •Camille Pissarro
Art School
- •Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association