Isabel Bishop

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexFemale
Full nameIsabel•Bishop (-Wolff)
Used nameIsabel•Bishop
Other namesIsabell Bishop
Born3 March 1902 in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)
Died19 February 1988 in Riverdale, New York (USA)
NOC United States

Biography

Isabel Bishop was a painter and graphic artist who was best known for her paintings and drawings of working women, hoboes, and students in realistic Manhattan city scenes. Her body of work illustrated the changing face of Union Square from the post-Depression milieu of the 1930s to the war protesters and students of the 1960s and 1970s. Bishop studied at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and the Art Students League and was strongly influenced by the classical school of Flemish painters such as Peter Paul Rubens. After a trip to Europe, she opened a studio in Union Square, New York, which she maintained until 1984.

Bishop taught at the Art Students League as the only female full-time instructor from 1936-37 and also at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was the first woman to hold an executive position in the National Institute of Arts and Letters (now the American Academy of Arts and Letters) when she became vice-president in 1946.

Isabel Bishops’ painting Golf Match is commonly known as Golf Tournament. She created her 69 x 81 cm painting in 1930 in oil on panel.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1932 Summer Olympics Art Competitions USA Isabel Bishop
Painting, Paintings, Open (Olympic) AC