# Isabel Bishop artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/isabel-bishop/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:23:04.570Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1902-03-03
- Death date: 1988-02-19
- Nationality: American
- Movements: Fourteenth Street School
- Common media: Painting, Etching and printmaking, Drawing, Graphic art

## Portrait

![Isabel Bishop](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Isabel_Bishop%2C_American_painter_and_printmaker%2C_1902-1988.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabel_Bishop,_American_painter_and_printmaker,_1902-1988.jpg

## About Isabel Bishop

Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) was an American painter, graphic artist, etcher, and printmaker associated with New York's loosely defined Fourteenth Street School. She studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York and later became an instructor there. Bishop is especially connected with Union Square, where she observed the movement and routines of everyday Manhattan life. Her documented subjects include women in urban settings and other figures encountered around the square. Sources describe this New York-centered body of work as extending from the 1930s into the 1970s. Collectors may therefore encounter her name on paintings, drawings, etchings, and other graphic works depicting city figures or daily activity. Authority records maintained by Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty distinguish Bishop from similarly named people, while museum profile links and the surviving photographic record help establish her public artist identity.

## Common works and media

Source records identify Bishop with paintings, drawings, etchings, prints, and graphic art. Frequently documented subject contexts include everyday Manhattan activity, Union Square scenes, urban figures, and women in city settings. In auction and appraisal research, the work type, technique, subject, and approximate date should be recorded precisely before comparisons are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal begins by identifying the medium and technique because Bishop is documented as a painter, graphic artist, draftsman, etcher, and printmaker. Subject and approximate date can then help place a work within her known concentration on Union Square, Manhattan life, and female figures. Those characteristics provide context but do not, by themselves, establish authorship or value. Appraisily's artist page indicates an existing body of auction-price records, so useful comparisons should be filtered by work type, subject, date, and the details supplied in each sale record. This source pack contains no lot-level realized prices, condition reports, provenance histories, or edition data; consequently, it supports appraisal research but not a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6077568
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/91260517/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032484
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bishop
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bishop
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Bishop
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/isabel-bishop/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabel_Bishop,_American_painter_and_printmaker,_1902-1988.jpg