Two Girls
A prolific painter and printmaker, Bishop depicted scenes of everyday life and people in New York as a member of the so-called Fourteenth Street School, a loosely affiliated group of artists concentrated around Union Square. Young working women figure prominently in her art, as in this close-up view of two smartly dressed figures seemingly engaged over a piece of correspondence. Owing partly to her earlier study at the Art Students League, Bishop frequently worked from models. The models for Two Girls were Rose Riggens, a server at a restaurant where Bishop often had breakfast, and Riggenss friend Anna Abbott. The composition’s serenity and warm glow rather belies the grim economic circumstances of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Artwork Details
- Title: Two Girls
- Artist: Isabel Bishop (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1902–1988 Riverdale, New York)
- Date: 1935
- Medium: Oil and tempera on paperboard
- Dimensions: 20 in. × 24 1/16 in. × 1 in. (50.8 × 61.1 × 2.5 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1936
- Object Number: 36.27
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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