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1902 Cincinnati, Ohio - 1988 Riverdale, New York. Known for: City genre, street scenes and figure painting, graphic design.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Isabel Bishop was a leading painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject matter was urban life of common people... Read full biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Isabel Bishop was a leading painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject matter was urban life of common people in lower Manhattan, and she showed great sensitivity to individual personalities. Along with... Read full biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Isabel Bishop was a leading painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject matter was urban life of common people in lower Manhattan, and she showed great sensitivity to individual personalities. Along with Reginald Marsh and the Soyer brothers, Bishop was an outstanding, determined realist when Abstract Expressionism was the all-prevalent style. She spent her childhood in Detroit, Michigan, and in 1918, at age... Read full biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Isabel Bishop was a leading painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject matter was urban life of common people in lower Manhattan, and she showed great sensitivity to individual personalities. Along with Reginald Marsh and the Soyer brothers, Bishop was an outstanding, determined realist when Abstract Expressionism was the all-prevalent style. She spent her childhood in Detroit, Michigan, and in 1918, at age sixteen, went to New York to study illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. She attended the Art Students League where Kenneth Hayes Miller and Guy Pene du Bois became major influences. Hayes inspired her to turn to the... Read full biography
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Isabel Bishop was a leading painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject matter was urban life of common people in lower Manhattan, and she showed great sensitivity to individual personalities. Along with Reginald Marsh and the Soyer brothers, Bishop was an outstanding, determined realist when Abstract Expressionism was the all-prevalent style. She spent her childhood in Detroit, Michigan, and in 1918, at age sixteen, went to New York to study illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. She attended the Art Students League where Kenneth Hayes Miller and Guy Pene du Bois became major influences. Hayes inspired her to turn to the street life of New York for subject matter and insisted on fine draftsmanship. DuBois made her aware of character and p... Read full biography
Isabel (Wolff) Bishop - Artist Info
About Isabel (Wolff) Bishop: Keywords
Keywords (63)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood Block Print
- •Woodblock, Woodcut, Wood Engraving
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •New York City
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
- •Self-Portrait
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Art Association
- •Associated American Artists
- •Audubon Society of Artists-
- •Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
- •Fourteenth Street School, (NYC Studio Location)
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •Salons of America
- •Society of American Etchers/Brooklyn Society of Etchers
Art Teacher
- •Guy Pene Du Bois
- •Kenneth Hayes Miller
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •New York School of Applied Design for Women, Student
- •New York School of Art, Chase School, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
- •Susan & Herbert Adler Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Whitney Studio Club, Later Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Institute of Arts and Letters
- •Salons of America-
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts