Peggy Bacon

The Ardent Bowlers
1932

A detailed black and white etching depicting a lively indoor bowling alley scene from an earlier era, with numerous figures engaged in various activities. Some individuals are bowling, while others are seated or standing in groups, conversing, and observing the games. The perspective is from the end of the alley, looking down the lanes where pins are set. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and numbered in the lower right.

A detailed black and white etching depicting a lively indoor bowling alley scene from an earlier era, with numerous figures engaged in various activities. Some individuals are bowling, while others are seated or standing in groups, conversing, and observing the games. The perspective is from the end of the alley, looking down the lanes where pins are set. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and numbered in the lower right.

Not on view

Date
1932

Classification
Prints

Medium
Drypoint

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 16 13/16in. (23.2 × 42.7 cm) Plate: 6 × 13 7/8in. (15.2 × 35.2 cm)

Accession number
84.73.2

Edition
Ed. 125

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Katherine Schmidt Shubert Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© A. B. Brook for the Estate of Peggy Bacon

API
artworks/3542

Exhibitions

Benton and America in the 1930s: Works on Paper

May 19–Sept 4, 2004

Peggy Bacon
33 works in the collection

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