Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop (1908-1988). Another fantastic artist from the same period, somewhat related to Hopper and Marsh. She also reminds me a bit of Robert Crumb.

"Born in Cincinnati and raised in Detroit, Isabel Bishop came to New York at age sixteen to study illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. She soon transferred to the Art Students League, studying under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Guy P6ne du Bois, and, in 1934, she leased a studio on Union Square where she worked for the remainder of her career. Sometimes grouped with Miller and Reginald Marsh as the Fourteenth Street School, at other times associated with artists like Edward Hopper and Raphael and Moses Soyer, Bishop remains America's most distinctive depicter and visual poet of urban working women.". (Source)

Find more of her work here: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bishop_isabel.html

Also a complete book on woman painters available in digital form, which includes info on Bishop and several paintings: "The New Woman Revised - Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street".


(On the Street, 1931)



(Delayed Departure, 1935)


(Noon Hour, 1935)



(Two Girls 1936)

Reginald Marsh

New York City painter Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) - along with Edward Hopper his paintings fathered the modern 'Lonely People In The Big City' tradition in art. Without them, maybe there wouldn't be any Tom Waits albums or Wong Kar-Wai movies. Well, maybe.

Like another (later) iconic American artist, Andrew Wyeth, Marsh used egg tempera as paint, reviving the old techniques of painters from the middle ages and rennaissance.

You can look at his paintings here: http://www.eeweems.com/reginald_marsh/artwork.html. The Site has links to several biographical articles too.


("Twenty Cent Movie" - 1936)


("Why Not Use the L?" - 1930)


("Along the Waterfront", 1938)