Artist's Table
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Object Details
- Date
- 1931
- Artist
- Isabel Bishop, born Cincinnati, OH 1902-died New York City 1988
- Exhibition Label
- Bishop’s impeccable draftsmanship brought her recognition in the 1930s as one of the outstanding urban realists of the Fourteenth Street School, a group named for the area where Bishop, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and several other artist friends portrayed the local scene. Artist’s Table offers an intimate glimpse of Bishop’s studio; the casual disarray of the painting table and partly opened drawer reveal the private space in which the artist worked.
- Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
- Luce Center Label
- Isabel Bishop painted a “behind-the-scenes” glimpse of her studio, where old-fashioned glass bottles and muted shades of brown, orange, and gray conjure the rich smells of linseed oil and turpentine. The clutter of bottles and boxes, lit with raking light in a dusky space, evokes Bishop’s more famous figural paintings, which often show crowds of people milling about in lively urban spaces.
- Topic
- Still life\foliage
- Still life\furniture\table
- Still life\art tool
- Still life\other\container
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1986.6.6
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 14 5/8 x 17 1/2 in. (37.2 x 44.5 cm.)
- Metadata Usage
- Not determined
- Record ID
- saam_1986.6.6