Lucy Bacon
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Lucy Angeline Bacon (July 30, 1857 – October 17, 1932) was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes.
She studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro.
She is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.
Early life and education
Born in 1857 in Pitcairn, New York. Bacon graduated by 1879 from the Potsdam Normal School in New York.
She was related to Robert K. Vickery, through the marriage of her niece Ruth. In the 1890s, his father was a part-owner of a San Franciscan gallery, Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, the first gallery to exhibit the Impressionism in San Francisco.
Bacon studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. In 1892 she left for Paris to continue her studies at the Académie Colarossi. She then studied with Camille Pissarro, as advised by American painter Mary Cassatt.
Career
She then travelled to Éragny and created Impressionist paintings. She lived in San Jose by 1898 and was exhibiting paintings like A San Jose Garden at the San Francisco Art Association. She moved to California in the hopes of easing an ongoing illness that limited her ability to paint. She worked at Washburn Preparatory School in San Jose and painted from her home studio.
Her works were on display at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco in the spring of 1902. Lucy Bacon renounced her painting career and devoted herself to the Christian Science faith, possibly reducing her health problems, and she continued to teach art in 1905.
She was living in San Francisco by 1909 and had been in San Francisco. In 1927, Lucy Bacon was a member of the Indian Fair Committee of the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs (NMAIA) and the Eastern Association on Indian Affairs (EAIA), which displayed Native American artists' works.
She died in 1932 in San Francisco.
Garden Landscape, 1894-1896, is one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's collection.