The exhibition Six Degrees of Peggy Bacon is on view at The Art Students League, NYC, through November 1. It was organized with the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Drawings,
prints, letters, sketchbooks, photographs, and memorabilia trace connections
that wonder through the art world and beyond, as far as Eleanor Roosevelt and
Albert Einstein. Three works by Bacon are on loan from us, including the
drypoint Clams and Clodhoppers, 1933.
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| Peggy Bacon, Clams and Clodhoppers, 1933 |
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| Peggy Bacon, Djuna Barnes, about 1945 |
Included
are Bacon’s friends such as artist-colleagues Louis Bouché, Arthur B. Davies, Philip Evergood, Reginald
Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Katherine Schmidt, Max Weber, and Marguerite
Zorach, as well as the writers Djuna Barnes and Frank O’Hara.
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| Franz Kline, Poem (by Frank O'Hara), 1957 |
