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ISABEL BISHOP Three ink drawings.
Two Girls Standing at a Counter, with watercolor, circa 1936. 235x128 mm; 9 1/4x5 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto *Studies of Girls at a Soda Fountain, with watercolor, double-sided, circa 1952. 355x235 mm; 14x9 1/4 inches. Signed three times in pencil, recto * Studies of People at a Counter, with watercolor, circa 1958. 288x292 mm; 11 1/4x11 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, upper right recto.
Provenance: Private collection, New York.
Bishop (1902-1988) was born in Cincinnati, though moved often as a child. She began studying art at age 12 in Detroit at the John Wicker Art School. In 1918, she moved to New York and continued her studies at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and the Art Students League where she studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller who greatly influenced her.
She acquired her studio in Union Square in 1926 and become part of a group of artists known as the Fourteenth Street School who depicted the urban environment and its inhabitants in a realist manner. She often depicted the New Woman that first emerged in the 1920s who worked outside the home; her subjects were often shopping, riding the subway and enjoying urban life. She looked towards Old Masters, particularly Dutch and Flemish artists, in how she rendered the form and movement of city dwellers.
