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Isabel Bishop is best known for her images of New Yorkers engaged in daily routines-shop girls on their lunch hour, men loitering, or strap-hangers on the subway. Raised in Detroit, Bishop initially moved to New York to pursue a career in illustration. She soon switched her focus to painting, enrolling at the Art Students League in the early 1920s. While at the League, Bishop studied under the realist painter and respected teacher Kenneth Hayes Miller, whose own work detailed glimpsed moments in the lives of contemporary urbanites.

Although painting was her primary focus, Bishop was also a prolific and talented printmaker. She began making line etchings in 1928, a practice she continued through the late 1940s.

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