Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Bishop, Isabel |
Title |
Five Women Walking |
Medium |
Etching on paper |
Date |
no date |
Description |
Isabel Bishop (Cincinnati, Ohio 1902-1988 New York, New York) Five Women Walking, no date Etching on paper 14 ½ x 16 ½ inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1976 purchase from the 10th Dulin National Print and Drawing Competition Isabel Bishop was reared in Detroit, MI before heading to New York City at age 16 to study commercial art at the New York School of Design for Women. In 1920 she shifted her interest to painting, studying at the Art Students League, 1920-24 where she would later teach as the only full time woman instructor. She also taught at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME. Her early work was inspired by Renaissance and Baroque art and included many female nudes, as was typical of the day. In the late 1920s and early 1930s she shifted her attention to Union Square's working class women and men. She often monumentalized her figures, endowing them with a sense of the heroic. She was, in many senses, a genre painter. |
Catalog Number |
1976.02.01 |
Search Terms |
Etchings Prints Paper Women Walking Dulin Gallery of Art Women Artists |