Portrait Sketch with Notes about Sitter
Datec. 1934
Artist
Peggy Bacon
(American painter, printmaker, author, 1895–1987)
MediumCrayon on wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 13 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (35.4 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1985
Object number1985-85
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBacon's notes amplify the elements of her portraits. Here she described the unidentified sitter's "heavy eyelids like clam shells" and "straight nose with arrogant nostrils."
