Born in 1857 in Pitcairn, New York. Bacon graduated by 1879 from the Potsdam Normal School in New York. Lucy Bacon had two art works Garden Landscape and Path Through the Woods. Garden Landscape was put in the fine arts museums in San Francisco. This Garden Landscape work was created about 38 years ago. This work is a painting on oil canvas. On the other hand, Bacon painted Path Through the Woods as well. She painted this work around 1898 and is also an oil on canvas. She was encouraged to pursue art by her family. She was related to Robert K. Vickery, through the marriage of her niece Ruth. In the 1890s, he was a part-owner of a San Franciscan gallery, Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, the first gallery to exhibit the Impressionism in San Francisco. Bacon studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. In 1892 she left for Paris to continue her studies at the Académie Colarossi. She then studied with Camille Pissarro, as advised by American painter Mary Cassatt.
Career
She then moved to Éragny and made Impressionist 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 chronic illness which limited her ability to paint. She taught at Washburn Preparatory School in San Jose 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, possibly finding it eased her health problems, and she continued to teach art. By 1909, she was living in San Francisco. Lucy Bacon was a member of the Indian Fair Committee of the New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs and Eastern Association on Indian Affairs in 1927, which exhibited works by Native American artists. She died in San Francisco in 1932. Her painting, Garden Landscape made between 1894 and 1896, is among the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
