Great 1968 Isabel Bishop Original Pencil Signed Etching and Aquatint

Description: Entitled "Two With Coats" this 1968 etching is by the celebrated American Social Realist painter and printmaker Isabel Bishop (1902-1988) famous for her intimate observations of life in New York City. Measuring 6 7/8" x 4 5/8" image, on 13" x 10" loose full sheet it is signed in pencil lower right, numbered 18 lower left, from a small edition of 25. It is in excellent condition with no holes, tears, stains or toning. Catalogue Raisonne: Teller #65. Works by this artist can be found in the collections of many major museums Including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonlan Museum of American Art, National Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, etc. An astute observer of urban life, Isabel Bishop was the only female member of the Fourteenth Street School, a group of realist painters who depicted New York during the Great Depression. Like her colleagues Reginald Marsh and Edward Laning, Bishop trained at New York’s Art Students League under painter Kenneth Hayes Miller, who encouraged his students to join classical forms with contemporary subject matter. In her paintings, drawings, and prints, Bishop captured subjects she encountered in and around Union Square, where she rented a studio from 1926 until 1984. She often favored female figures, especially the new generation of office girls who roamed the neighborhood at lunchtime and the matronly shoppers who frequented the area’s thriving department stores. Rather than portraying the chaos and commotion of the city’s crowded streets, as some of her contemporaries did, Bishop focused on intimate moments amid the bustle of daily life.

Price: 195 USD

Location: Avon, Connecticut

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