Introduction
Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s. The aim of a caricature is to heighten and intensify to the point of absurdity all the subject's most striking attributes; a caricature should not necessarily stop at ridiculing the features but should include in its extravagant appraisal whatever of the figure may be needed to explain the personality, the whole drawing imparting a spicy and clairvoyant comment upon the subject's peculiarities.
Wikidata
Q7160630
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Nationality
American
Gender
Female
Roles
Artist, Author, Etcher, Lithographer, Writer, Caricaturist, Poet, Illustrator, Painter
Names
Peggy Bacon, Peggy Brook Bacon, Margaret Bacon, Peggy Frances Bacon, Peggy. Bacon, Margaret Frances Bacon, Peggy Bacon Brook, Margaret Frances Bacon Brook
Ulan
500024574
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