Title: Cafe #3.
Artist: Peggy Bacon (1895-1988)
Conte drawing, 1931.
Signed and dated in pencil. Inscribed "Munich - 1931."
Paper size 10 11/16 x 8" (27.1 x 20.2 cm).

Peggy Bacon was an American printmaker, painter, illustrator and caricaturist, born on May 2, 1895, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She studied at the School of Fine and Applied Art in New York, where she became life-long friends with sculptor, Dorothea Greenbaum, and painter, Helen Park Stockman. The three of them would move their studies to the Art Students League in 1915. For the next two summers, Bacon studied in Provincetown, and in 1918 spent the summer in Woodstock studying with modernist, Andrew Dasburg.

Around 1918 Bacon began making drypoints, and was developing the style and techniques she would become so well known for – caricature. She would often take ordinary elements of life and add a comedic twist. Her very first caricatures were drawn in the classroom with George Bellows at the League. Her talents led to her being hired as an illustrator for a number of major publication firms, including Vanity Fair, The American Mercury, and The New Yorker. Bacon also illustrated more than sixty children’s books during her lifetime.

Condition: Good condition, remains of old hinges in upper.