Lucy Bacon
Lucy Bacon (* 1857 in Pitcairn , New York , † 1932 in San Francisco , California ) was an American impressionist painter and art teacher.
Life
Lucy Bacon began her artistic training in the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York City , in 1892 she went to Paris to the Académie Colarossi there . Dissatisfied with the training there, she asked the artist Mary Cassatt for help with the artistic work. Cassatt agreed and also referred Lucy Bacon to Camille Pissarro , who lived in Éragny near Paris. After moving to Eragny, Bacon painted some pictures in the Impressionist style, but was only able to deal with painting to a limited extent due to health problems.
In 1896 Lucy Bacon returned to the USA and moved to San Jose , California, because the climate there would give her health improvement. She painted in her private studio and also taught art at Washbury School, and in 1898 she exhibited her pictures in an exhibition by the San Francisco Art Association . The pictures were presented in the Vickery, Atkins and Torrey gallery by William Kingston Vickery , whose son Robert Kingston Vickery was married to her niece Ruth Vickery.
In 1905, Lucy Bacon decided to quit painting and focus on theological studies. She lived in San Francisco around 1909 , where she died in 1932. Little is known of her later life.
literature
- William Gerdts, Will South: California Impressionism. Abbeville, New York 1998.
- Edan Hughes: Artists in California, 1786–1940. Hughes Pub., San Francisco 1989.
Web links
- Biography at AskArt
- Will South: In and Out of California: The Participatory Nature of Early California Art
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bacon, Lucy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American impressionist painter and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pitcairn , New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1932 |
| Place of death | San Francisco , California, USA |