About the Artwork
The Widow and the Grass Widow
20th century
Peggy Bacon
1895 - 1987
American
Unknown
Drypoint printed in black on wove paper
plate: 4 x 3 in. 10.1 x 7.6 cm sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. 24.1 x 19.0 cm
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton
F1985.22.B
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In pencil, lower right: Peggy Bacon
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Watermark: (Va)n Gelder Zonen / Holland
Provenance
Mrs. Kamperman
James M. Babcock, Algonac
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Flint, J. A., CHECKLIST OF PRINTS: PEGGY BACON, PERSONALITIES AND PLACES, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institutions Press for National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, p 108, cat no 60 (ill).
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Peggy Bacon, The Widow and the Grass Widow, 20th century, Drypoint printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, F1985.22.B.
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