Lunch at the League
Date1918
Artist
Peggy Bacon
(American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
MediumDrypoint
Dimensionsplate: 5 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (15.1 × 20.2 cm)
sheet: 8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.3 × 25.6 cm)
sheet: 8 × 10 1/16 in. (20.3 × 25.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988
Object number1988-29
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe artist's first drypoint etching, this depicts the lunch room at the Art Students League in New York, where Bacon was a student in 1918. Several figures are identified in the catalogue raisonné. In the first row, in profile, Doris Rosenthal; second row, left, Peggy Bacon; next to her, Dorothy Varian; center, with glasses, Isabel Howland; top right, Edmund Duffy, later a caricaturist for the Baltimore Sun.
