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Martha Stringham Bacon, an unknown artist of the first half of the 20th century. Born in Berkeley, California in 1892, the daughter of Martha Sherman Stringham and Irving Stringham a mathematics professor at UC Berkeley.

Married to the Pulitzer Prize winning poet (1941), Leonard Bacon, Martha S. Bacon did not begin to paint until at the age of 31 in 1923, she experienced a severe emotional breakdown during which she heard violent voices. During her hospitalization and recovery, Martha Bacon experienced a number of visions and dreams that she would later reproduce in the form of Mandalas.

During the late 1920s Leonard Bacon would establish a friendship with Dr. Carl Jung, whose method of psychoanalysis was gaining a following among Americans. Bacon went to Zurich for treatment of his “melancholia” while his wife would heal herself through her paintings.