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Frenzied Effort

Frenzied Effort

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Peggy Bacon

In this scene Peggy Bacon portrays artists at the Whitney Studio Club, forerunner of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which held lectures, classes, and exhibitions for American artists. Bacon included a self-portrait in the back row, where she can be seen wearing glasses, and represented fellow artist Mabel Dwight in the lower left sketching and wearing a hat. Bacon studied at the Art Students League and spent a few summers working in the artistic communities of Provincetown, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York. She was known for her caricatures and satires of New York life and contributed illustrations to books and periodicals, including The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Artist
Peggy Bacon
(American, 1895 - 1987)
Title
Frenzied Effort
Date
1925
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
5 7/8 x 9 in. Overall
Credit
University Fund purchase
Accession No.
1976.14
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

1976, sold by Weyhe Gallery (New York, NY) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Watrous, James, "A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980." Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. p. 88, no. 3.45
  • Elvehjem Art Center. "Americans At Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts, 1855-1975." Madison: Elvehjem Art Center, 1976. pp. 24, 46, no. 47
  • Elvehjem Art Center. Elvehjem Art Center Annual Report. "Bulletin 1975-1976". Madison, WI: Elvehjem Art Center, 1976 p. 54

  • New York City Life 1905-1940: Prints by John Sloan and His Friends and Followers: Chazen Museum of Art, 1/27/2007–3/25/2007
  • Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980, A: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/18/1984–4/8/1984
  • Americans at Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts 1855-1975 : Elvehjem Art Center, 5/1/1976–6/27/1976

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