Isabel Bishop, born Cincinnati, OH 1902-died New York City 1988 Search this
Medium:
oil on fiberboard
Dimensions:
25 1/8 x 16 7/8 in. (63.7 x 42.8 cm.)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1945
Exhibition Label:
“I have worked for more than twenty years in a studio at the north west corner of Union Square, New York. I have noticed regular denizens of the Square who, sitting on the benches or on the fountain, eating, sewing or rearranging their worldly goods in paper bundles, seem to be leading the most private of lives, entirely oblivious to the public character of the place. The not-beautiful forms of the fountain seem . . . to make a throne for the old man sewing his trousers; his billowing old overcoat [becomes] a robe.”
--Isabel Bishop
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014