Close Quarters
Date1932
Artist
Peggy Bacon
(American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
MediumDrypoint
Dimensionsplate: 4 7/8 × 6 15/16 in. (12.4 × 17.6 cm)
sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 7/16 in. (24.4 × 31.6 cm)
sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 7/16 in. (24.4 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-15
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis etching captures the tight space shared by passengers traveling to Europe by ship. Bacon, pictured brushing her teeth, had personal experience of this, having traveled abroad with her husband who had a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931.
