Lucy Bacon

Lucy Bacon ( * 1857 in Pitcairn, New York, † in San Francisco, California, 1932) was an American painter of Impressionism and art teacher.

Life

Her artistic training began Lucy Bacon at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design in New York City, 1892 she went to Paris at the local Académie Colarossi. Dissatisfied with the local education she asked the artist Mary Cassatt for help in the artistic work. Cassatt agreed and gave Lucy Bacon also to Camille Pissarro, who lived in Eragny near Paris. After moving to Eragny Bacon painted some paintings in an Impressionist style, however, was limited to deal with the painting, due to health problems.

1896 Lucy Bacon returned back to the U.S. and moved to San Jose in California, because they promised a health improvement of the local climate. She painted in her private studio and also taught art at the School Washbury, 1898, she presented her paintings in an exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association from. The images were presented in the gallery Vickery, Atkins and Torrey William Kingston Vickery, whose son Robert Kingston Vickery was married to her niece Ruth Vickery.

In 1905, Lucy Bacon decided to lay down the painting and to focus on theological studies. By 1909 she was living in San Francisco, where she died in 1932. Little is known of her later life.