Sketchbook
Object Details
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- Sketchbook : 1 v. : graphite and ink ; 10 x 15 cm.
- Summary
- 19 p. There are sketches on many of the pages? versos. Graphite and pen were used to create the images and for Bishop?s discussions on form, subject, and content in works of art as well as her lists of artists and their works of art which she might have seen on a museum visit. The images are loosely sketched and many are indiscernible. Images that are more complete include: a sitting man wearing a hat, two men, one behind a newspaper and one looking at the viewer, a sitting woman, and a study of two faces, one profile and one frontal.
- Citation
- Isabel Bishop. Sketchbook, ca. 1950. Isabel Bishop papers, 1914-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- Data Source
- Archives of American Art
- Date
- ca. 1950
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)5749
- Creator
- Bishop, Isabel, 1902-1988
- Type
- Artworks
- See more items in
- Isabel Bishop papers, 1914-1983
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_5749
