Lucy Bacon

Lucy Angeline Bacon (July 30, 1857 – October 17, 1932) was a Californian artist known for her California Impressionist oil paintings of florals, landscapes and still lifes. She studied in Paris under the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. She is the only known Californian artist to have studied under any of the great French Impressionists.

Early life and education Bacon was born in 1857 in Pitcairn, New York. She graduated by 1879 from the Potsdam Normal School in New York.

Bacon studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. She then studied with Camille Pissarro, as advised by American painter Mary Cassatt and painted alongside other impressionists, such as Paul Cézanne.alt=Camille Pissarro from Lucy Bacon family archives. Career Bacon later moved to Éragny, where she made impressionist-style paintings. By 1898, she lived in San Jose and was exhibiting paintings such as A San Jose Garden at the San Francisco Art Association. She moved to California in the hope of improving a chronic illness which limited her ability to paint. and painted from her home studio.

In the spring of 1902, her works were exhibited at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco. In 1905, while Lucy Bacon renounced her painting career and devoted herself to the Christian Science religion,

She died in San Francisco in 1932.

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