Isabel Bishop (1902-1988)
In 1934 Isabel Bishop leased a studio on Union Square in New York City where she spent the remainder of her career depicting the blue-collar workers, shop girls, students and secretaries she saw each day passing under her studio window. Sometimes grouped with Kenneth Hayes Miller and Reginald Marsh as the Fourteenth Street School, Bishop remains America’s most distinctive depicter and visual poet of urban working women.
Isabel Bishop’s creative strengths were impeccable draftsmanship, a sensitive handling of light and an uncanny awareness of the moment at which an action must be frozen to imply motion. Bishop stated that her earlier work was about the capacity for movement, while her later works portrayed movement itself.
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Sketch for Six Women Walking 1963
Oil on Canvas
23 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches |
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Works on Paper
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At the Fountain c. 1957
Inkwash on Paper
8 x 5 inches
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Woman Putting on Coat c. 1960
Ink on Paper
7 1/8 x 3 1/2 inches
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Etchings
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Entrance to Union Square 1981
Etching and Aquatint
Edition of 75
8 x 7 1/2 inches
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Girls at Counter c. 1982
Etching and Aquatint
Edition of 75
6 x 4 1/4 inches
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