New York Times Review of Bacon & Circle Show

In the New York Times review of the Peggy Bacon & Her Circle show August 5, 2011, Holland Cotter wrote about the “distinctly geeky male students lurking in the background” of Bacon’s 1918 drypoint, Lunch at the League, with Dorothy Varian and Doris Rosenthal.

                              Peggy Bacon, Lunch at the League, 1918

He also noted that George Bellows, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and John Sloan, teachers at the League, are represented in the show along with Isabel Bishop, Minna Citron (he called her depiction of childbirth a kind of “Titian-esque allegory”)

and Alexander Brook (with a portrait of Rosalie Hook – the photographer and wife of Robert Gwathmey).

  

In conclusion Cotter wrote, “All of the colleagues in the circle traced here are now gone, though shows like this ensure that their link with history, however slender, will not be broken.”  

We are thrilled, of course.

The show is on through August 18, 2011.

Link for site:

http://www.susantellergallery.com/cgi/STG_exh.pl

Peggy Bacon: Drawings and Prints, 1915 to 1976, through Saturday, April 30

On view this weekend through next, the Peggy Bacon show runs through Saturday, April 30.  From crowd scenes to relaxing felines, no one does it like she does!

For My Dear, 1950, embroidery

Artist, draftsman, caricaturist, author, teacher, and maker of embroidered love letters, Bacon played a key role in twentieth century American art history. She hit the New York hot spots of Greenwich Village, The Art Students League (where she studied with John Sloan, George Bellows, and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and met Alexander Brook, her husband from 1920 to 1940), and Union Square. She worked in the artists’ colony of Woodstock, NY, in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, and in Washington, DC, portraying statesmen for Fortune Magazine. She could be witty and clever, but was always charming and gracious.

The entire show may be viewed under Exhibitions or Current at WWW.SUSANTELLERGALLERY.COM

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair

Peggy Bacon, Votes for Women, 1915

The Chicago Print and Drawing Fair is currently on view in the Yates Gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, March 17 through March 20, 2011. Fourteen dealers are showing, all International Fine Print Dealers Association members. At this fair we are featuring works by women: Peggy Bacon (in advance of our April show), Riva Helfond, Anne Ryan, and Marguerite Zorach. Will Barnet, James Daugherty, Howard Daum, Peter Grippe, and Hugh Mesibov, round out the group.