Isabel Bishop
American Painter & Print maker (1902 - 1988)
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Men and Girls Walking
Men and Girls Walking
Signed by artist
c. 1969
Framed: 20 x 16 inches
Inside Frame: 17 x 12 3/4 inches
Edition: 39/65
In 1918, at age 16, Isabel Bishop moved from Detroit to New York and enrolled at the New York School of Applied Design for Women with the intention of studying illustration. Two years later, she transferred to The Art Students League of New York, where she studied painting until 1924. She instructors Guy Pène du Bois and Kenneth Hayes Miller encouraged her study of classical art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ABOUT THE ARTIST
New York artist Isabel Bishop devoted her career to depicting the fleeting movements of passersby she observed near her 14th Street studio in Union Square. Inspired by the realism of New York’s Ashcan school as well as by Rembrandt’s depictions of common people, Bishop rejected lofty themes in her art and portrayed her subjects in the middle of candid movements. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) and displayed in the Teresa Lozano Long Gallery, Miracle of Movement: Isabel Bishop in Union Square, New York features 20 works from NMWA’s collection, including 17 prints and paintings generously bequeathed to NMWA in 2004 by Catherine Gamble Curran. Ranging in date from 1927 to 1984, they are studies of the mobility of the human form and daily life in Manhattan.
A painter and printmaker fascinated with the daily routines of ordinary people, Bishop said she was “struck by the beauty, drama, and miraculous effects” of the city’s restless crowds. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she arrived in New York City in 1918 at the age of 16. She studied illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women from 1918 to 1920 and took classes at the Art Students League from 1920 to 1924. After marrying in 1934, she lived in Riverdale but maintained a studio on Union Square near 14th Street until 1984. A member of New York’s 14th Street School, which comprised realist artists Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Raphael Soyer, Bishop is best known for her graphic art, although she also worked as a painter.
from the National Museum of Women artists - Website
Isabel Bishop portrait at Smithsonian
Isabel Bishop (March 3, 1902 – February 19, 1988) was an American painter and graphic artist.
Bishop studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she would later become an instructor. She was most notable for her scenes of everyday life in Manhattan, as a member of the loosely-defined ‘Fourteenth Street School’ of artists, grouped in that precinct. Union Square features prominently in her work, which mainly depicts female figures. Bishop’s paintings won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among other distinctions.
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