La Guardia

© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproducti…
© Estate of Peggy Bacon
La Guardia
© Estate of Peggy Bacon. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

La Guardia

Date1934
Artist (American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
Illustration CitationOff With Their Heads!, by Peggy Bacon (New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934), pages not numbered.
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 15 7/8 × 11 3/8 in. (40.3 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985
Object number1985-84
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextA printmaker, illustrator, painter, and writer, Peggy Bacon was known for her humorous etchings and drawings, as well as for her caricatures of prominent personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. In her portrayal of New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, she brought to bear her artistic goal:

“The aim of a caricature is to heighten and intensify to the point of absurdity all the subject's most striking attributes...imparting a spicy and clairvoyant comment
upon the subject's peculiarities.”
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