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        "id": 112057,
        "accession_number": "1930.537",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Lady Artist, 1925. Peggy Bacon (American, 1895\u20131987). Drypoint; platemark: 15.2 x 10.1 cm (6 x 4 in.); sheet: 29.7 x 23.4 cm (11 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride, 1930.537",
        "current_location": null,
        "title": "Lady Artist",
        "creation_date": "1925",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1925,
        "creation_date_latest": 1925,
        "artists_tags": [
            "female"
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        "culture": [
            "America"
        ],
        "technique": "drypoint",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Drypoint",
        "type": "Print",
        "measurements": "Platemark: 15.2 x 10.1 cm (6 x 4 in.); Sheet: 29.7 x 23.4 cm (11 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "platemark": {
                "height": 0.152,
                "width": 0.101
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            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.297,
                "width": 0.234
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        "inscriptions": [
            {
                "inscription": "In graphite, recto: \"Lady Artist  Peggy Bacon/1925\"",
                "inscription_translation": null,
                "inscription_remark": null,
                "sortorder": null
            }
        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 357204,
                    "title": "Humor in Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Humor in Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934).",
                    "opening_date": "1934-09-13T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 381923,
                    "title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
                    "description": "<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-07-17T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
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        },
        "provenance": [],
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        "did_you_know": "The artist in this print is using an etching needle to draw a composition onto a copperplate.",
        "description": "Having studied with both George Bellows and John Sloan, Peggy Bacon was one of a growing number of women who sought independence and professional success in America\u2019s cities. In this self-portrait, she portrayed herself with her etching needle poised on a copperplate. The crowded domestic setting invites her audience to see what it means to be an artist and a woman, with curious neighbors peering in and an inquisitive spider, like an omnipresent observer, above. While the easel and floor display drawings of a nude and a portrait\u2014traditional art subjects\u2014the copperplate reveals a more ordinary subject: the bare outline of a cat.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80004554"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Maze, Ramey. \"Peggy Bacon.\" In <em>150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League, </em>edited by Stephanie Cassidy, 114-117. New York, NY: The Art Students League of New York, 2025.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116-117",
                "url": ""
            }
        ],
        "catalogue_raisonne": "Flint 58",
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.537",
        "images": {},
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride",
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        "athena_id": 112057,
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            {
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                "description": "Peggy Bacon (American, 1895\u20131987)",
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                "role": "artist",
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                "name_in_original_language": null,
                "birth_year": "1895",
                "death_year": "1987",
                "use_in_caption": true,
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                "weight": 1
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        ],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1930-10-27T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1925,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1925",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:00:33.026000"
    }
}