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Underground Howl representing diverse artistic expressions&people of the LES-via art,poetry,performance,dance,alternative&underground visions;[email protected]

03/08/2025
03/08/2025

For and , our focus on works by women artists in our collection continues with Isabel Bishop! To dive deeper, join us for a free virtual meditation on her work Lunch Counter on March 12 at 12:45 pm >> https://bit.ly/43wiuzx

Lunch Counter is one of many paintings by Isabel Bishop inspired by women she observed in or near Union Square in New York. The figures concentrate on eating rather than visiting and are oblivious to the gaze of the viewer. In contrast to domestic genre images common in American art since the mid-19th century, these women are part of the work force outside the home. Bishop stated in 1936 that there was a great discrepancy between contemporary women and their depictions in art: “Traditionally, we show silly people in silly clothes, and the housewife with her hair done up and in a gingham apron. But that is an anachronism. It isn’t true of the modern world.” Bishop hoped to convey her subjects’ potential for overcoming class and gender restrictions.

Bishop made no attempt to show all aspects of a scene or to finish a painting in a traditional manner because she believed that incompleteness could suggest the passage of time. Ironically, Bishop herself constantly reworked her images, taking months to complete a single painting. Bishop’s technique is reflected in the timeless quality of her paintings.

🎨 Isabel Bishop, Lunch Counter, c. 1940, Oil and egg tempera on hardboard, 23 x 14 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1941; © The Estate of Isabel Bishop. Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York.

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