Morris Ernst
Peggy Bacon, American, 1895 - 1987
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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