Isabel Bishop
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Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) Union Square c. 1931, oil on canvas 14 by 17 in. |
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Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) Office Girls 1938, etching 8 by 5 in. |
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Isabel Bishop |
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Laughing Head, 1938 Mixed media on panel, 13 x 12" (33.02 X 30.48 cm.) |
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"Two Women" 1935 |
| Bishop was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and spent her childhood in Detroit, Michigan. She moved to New York City at the age of 16, to study at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. In the early 1920s she took classes at the Art Students League, where American painter and teacher Kenneth Hayes Miller encouraged her and fellow student Reginald Marsh to observe and paint the urban scene around them. She and Marsh, along with other realist artists who lived near Union Square during the 1930s, became known as the Fourteenth Street School. In their desire to portray city life realistically, they were heirs to the Ashcan School, a group of artists led by American painter Robert Henri and named for their emphasis on depicting the grittier side of city life. |
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