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Finishing Touches, c. 1937
Peggy Baconexpand_more
Chalk pastel on pale gray paperexpand_more
Gift of Rev. Richard Lewis Hillstrom in honor of Stephen R. Nelsonexpand_more 93.82.1
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Conservation cost: $5,051
American modernist artist Peggy Bacon (1895–1987) was widely acclaimed for her figurative drawing skills and her uncanny ability to illuminate essential traits of temperament and character through exaggeration and caricature. Fully developed pastel drawings by Bacon are relatively rare, so it is important to restore those that exist. The proposed treatment for this drawing includes releasing it from its poor quality window mat sandwich (the work is double-sided with an unfinished “false start” sketch on the back of the sheet) and chemically treating various spots of mold scattered across the drawing surface. The drawing will then be re-hinged and reframed to archival standards using non-glare acrylic glazing.
Contact the Prints and Drawings Department at printstudy@artsmia.org or (612) 870-3113 to Champion this artwork.
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