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Exemplified by works like 14th Street
(1931) and At the Base of the Flag Pole (1928), Bishop's
style is associated with her teacher, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and
with Reginald Marsh, her fellow student at the Art Students League
in New York City. Sometimes called the 14th Street School, their
work centered on scenes of everyday life in that middle to lower
class neighborhood. Bishop began to etch in 1925, and many of her
works, like the Museum's series, are in that medium.
Born in Cincinnati, Bishop enrolled in the New York City's School
of Applied Design for Women in 1918, intending a career in
commercial art. She began her studies at the Art Students League
in 1920 under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Guy Pene du Bois and
established a studio on 14th Street, near Union Square, in 1926.
Her first one person show was held at Midtown Galleries in 1932.
Bishop was elected an Academician of the National Academy of
Design in 1941 and a member of the National Institute of Arts and
Letters in 1944, serving as vice president (the first woman
officer) in 1946.
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