Title: Students on the Steps.
Isabel Bishop (1902-1989)
Medium: Etching and aquatint, 1981.
Signed in pencil, inscribed "11/75."
Edition 75.
Image size 8 x 7 1/2" (20.5 x 19 cm).
Condition: Very good condition, full original sheet.

Isabel Bishop (1902-1989) printmaker, painter was born on March 3, 1902 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She came to New York City in 1918 to study at the New York School of Applied Design for Women, she went on to study at the Art Students League with Guy Pene du Bois and Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was influenced by Kenneth Hayes Miller and became a member of New York's 14th Street School. Bishop taught at the Art Students League as the only female full-time instructor from 1936 to 1937 and also at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among others. She received awards and prizes including an American Academy of Arts and Letters award (1943), an award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts presented by President Jimmy Carter (1979), and several honorary doctorates. She was the first woman to hold an executive position in the National Institute of Arts and Letters when she became vice-president in 1946.