A Bacon Postcard
From a collector par excellence, this scan just sent in to the Spill: an undated (signed) postcard by Peggy Bacon. Only further info: Whitney Studio Club. Dry Point Etching.
Here’s the Spill‘s Peggy Bacon A-Z entry:
Peggy Bacon ( Self portrait above from Bacon’s Off With Their Heads!) Born May 2, 1895, Ridgefield, Ct.. Died January 4, 1987, Kennebunk, Maine. New Yorker work: 1927 -1950, included poetry, and fiction as well as cartoons.
Key collection: Off With Their Heads! (Robert M. McBride & Co. 1934).
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Mr. Blitt began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993. Visit his website here.
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