Saturday, July
29
National Dance
Day
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| Hugh Mesibov, Dancers, 1938 |
Hugh Mesibov’s
lithograph Dancers, 1938, was made at the WPA Printmaking Shop in Philadelphia.
It was agreed that he could make a print using several colors, but had to let a
colleague make a black and white lithograph in between. Consequently it took
several months to complete the image and when it was done ‘they’ (Michael J.
Gallagher?) decided against publishing it.
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| Peggy Bacon, Promenade, 1935 |
Peggy Bacon would certainly been among the first to celebrate National Dance Day (established in 2010). This Woodstock, square dancing scene from about 1935 is a drawing destined for the Art About the Arts page but a quirk kept it from showing up. I’m not giving up, but today is a perfect chance to show it off.
