Drypoint on chine, 1918, signed and titled in pencil, with margins. 9 1/2 x 13 in. (sheet), 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (frame). Literature: Flint 25. Note: Peggy Bacon was an American artist who focused her talents on illustration and printmaking while studying at the Art Students League in New York from 1915-1920. There she became part of a circle of artists that included Yasuo Kuniyoshi, John Sloan and George Bellows. While training as a painter, she became interested in printmaking and taught herself drypoint. Bacon's best-known prints are her humorous and often ironic images, as well as caricatures of prominent personalities. She was also a prolific book illustrator, working on over sixty books, nineteen of which she also wrote.