Peggy Bacon print PITY THE BLIND boy and mother on subway 1939 vintage WPA art

• Title:  Pity The Blind
• Artist: from an etching by Peggy Bacon
• Medium:  Print:  | Collotype
• Year Issued:  1939
• Dimensions:  12.75 x 9.50 inches
• Paper:  Wove, medium weight
• Reverse:  Printing
• Color:  black & white

The reverse side is printed with a paragraph about the artist and the original artwork.

This artwork was printed over 80 years ago, on high quality paper, using the OPTAK process, by master lithographer George Miller.

About the artist: Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s.

About WPA Prints:
"A Treasury of American Prints" was published in 1939 at the onset of WWII, with the intention of being taken apart and the individual plates being framed and displayed. It gave ordinary, working class Americans the opportunity to decorate their homes with the popular art of the period.