Morris Ernst

Peggy Bacon, American, 1895 - 1987

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1934

Crayon on light wove paper

Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 11/16 in. (27.2 × 19.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

D.2002.18.1

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in graphite, lower right: Peggy Bacon; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: Morris Ernst-

Course History

SART 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2020

Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

Possibly exhibited in: People: 1920 to 1940 and Portrait Drawings of the Period by Peggy Bacon, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York, September 9-28, 1974.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 226.

Provenance

The artist; to the estate of the the artist, 1987; with Kraushaar Galleries, Inc., New York by 1973; sold to present collection, 2002.

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