Girls at Counter  /  1982

Bishop, Isabel
American
Etching and aquatint

$600.00

Note: this print will appear in an exhibition at the Susquehanna Art Museum from August 13 through October 17, 2021. It can be purchased now, but won’t be available Until October 20.

Etching and Aquatint

Catalog Raisonne: Teller 81

Black ink on pale ivory paper

Pencil signed

Edition: 42/ 75

Image: 4 ¼” x 6”

Sheet: 9 ½” x 13 ¼”

Very good condition

1 in stock

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bishop-isabel-2ISABEL BISHOP
(1902—1988) ranks among the great figures in American art history. Her drawings, prints and paintings are critically acclaimed, and collected at the highest level.

Bishop’s late work (roughly 1960 onward), primarily addresses her fascination with pedestrian movement. But his etching, Bishop’s last, harks back to her lunch counter women of the 1950s.

For Bishop, etching was a way of “testing” her drawing ideas, to see if they held up in a more austere medium. If satisfied, she would enlarge the etchings onto panel for further development in the language of painting. Many of her etchings are precise blueprints for multiple, large paintings. (Bishop was dismayed that some contemporary critics heaped attention and praise on her drawings and prints, at the expense of her paintings.)

Some artists print their own work, and some entrust the task to other experts. Bishop printed proofs throughout much of her lifetime, often in tiny quantities. However, many of the plates were not editioned until the 1980s, then by master printer Stephen Sholinsky, whose embossed chop appears at the lower right corner of the sheet.

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