Isabel Bishop – Unknown Title

Isabel Bishop – Unknown Title , originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.

Isabel Bishop (Cincinnati, Ohio, March 3, 1902 – New York, February 19, 1988) was an American painter and graphic artist. Bishop's mature works depict the inhabitants of New York's Union Square area, where she maintained a studio between 1934 and 1984. Her subjects are nearly always women who come from a blu-collar background, yet she was also known to produce panoramic landscape studies and social scenes. Bishop also delighted in multiple-figure compositions, often containing two females engaged in various workaday interactions. In the post-war years Bishop's interest turned to more abstracted scenes of New Yorkers walking and travelling, in the streets or on the subways.