biography of Charles Roswell BACON (1868-1913)

Birth place: NY

Death place: (suicide)

Addresses: Ridgefield, CT (1907); Salem, NY (1912)

Profession: Painter, mural painter

Studied: With Constant, Lefebvre, Doucet, Collin, in Paris; Theodore Robinson, Giverny; ASL.

Exhibited: NAD, 1892; PAFA, 1901, 1912; CGA, 1907

Work: dec., Union Trust Co., Nineteenth Ward Bank, both in NYC.

Comments: Many of his paintings were sold at the MMA A. Gal., Jan. 19, 1914. He was the husband of artist Elizabeth Chase and father of artist Peggy Bacon.

Sources: WW13; Rubinstein, American Women Artists, 190-93 (under Peggy Bacon).