PEGGY BACON: Cats & Caricatures
Curated by Tom Wolf, Bard College
June 11- October 10, 2011
The Cat That Jumped Out of the Story, n.d. pastel. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, early 1930s. collection of Alexander Bacon Brook.
WAAM: Woodstock Artists Association Museum
28 Tinker Street
Woodstock, New York 12498
845-679-2940. www.woodstockart.org
The exhibition Cats & Caricatures takes as its theme two of the richest subjects explored by renowned artist and illustrator Peggy Bacon (1898-1987): her skill at drawing and exaggerating the characteristic facial features of friends, artists, entertainers, and politicians and her fascination with cats as visual subjects rich in movement, variety and expression.
