Frenzied Effort

Maker Peggy Bacon (American, 1895 - 1987)

Collections

American Print Selections

ClassificationsPRINTS

Date1925

Mediumetching on white wove paper

Dimensions5 7/8 x 9 in. (14.9 x 22.9 cm.)

SignedSigned in lower right of recto in graphite: Peggy Bacon.

InscribedSigned in lower right of recto in graphite: Peggy Bacon. Inscribed in lower left of recto in graphite: Frenzied Effort - 1925.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Mrs. Homer D. Crotty.

Status

Not on view

Label TextFrenzied Effort depicts a drawing class at the Whitney Studio Club, which was founded in 1918 by wealthy heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The club held exhibitions, provided a place to continue training, and served as an important gathering place for artists. Whitney became the patron of many of the club's members and in 1931 established the Whitney Museum of American Art.

As in other works from this period, Bacon crowded her composition with figures. The people depicted are her friends and colleagues-fellow printmaker Mabel Dwight is seated at the far left, wearing a hat.

Object number91.284.4

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