Isabel Bishop Early Sketchbook
Isabel Bishop
c. 1928-1936
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23 drawings in various media on 18 leaves of wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
2002.41.1.u
About the Artist
Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) was an American painter and printmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and whose work stands as one of the most quietly powerful achievements in twentieth-century American realism. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she moved to New York City as a teenager to study art, first at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and then at the Art Students League, where s...