Oral history interview with Peggy Bacon
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 3 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 9 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Bellows, George, 1882-1925
label: Names
content: Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980
label: Names
content: Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979
label: Names
content: Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970
label: Names
content: Hawthorne, Charles Webster, 1872-1930
label: Names
content: Lie, Jonas, 1880-1940
label: Names
content: Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 1876-1952
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- Woodstock
label: Occupation
content: Illustrators -- New York (State) -- Woodstock
label: Occupation
content: Caricaturists -- New York (State) -- Woodstock
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- Woodstock
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Bacon, Peggy, 1895-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) was a printmaker from Cape Porpoise, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound tape reels (Sound recording, analog, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973 May 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bacon73
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Peggy Bacon conducted 1973 May 8, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art, in Cape Porpoise, Maine. Bacon speaks of her family and educational background; summer art classes in Provincetown, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York; the Art Students League; the Provincetown Players; working in black and white; her drawings, drypoints, etchings, and caricatures; her illustrated books including, "Off With Their Heards"; cats as subjects; and her husband Alexander Brook. She recalls George Bellows, Andrew Dasburg, Edith Gregor Halpert, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Jonas Lie, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and others.