Female Nude with Raised Foot
c. 1940-1945
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pen and black ink with wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 18.57 × 12.38 cm (7 5/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)
Accession Number
2015.19.2705
About the Artist
Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop (1902–1988) was an American painter and printmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and whose work stands as one of the most quietly powerful achievements in twentieth-century American realism. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she moved to New York City as a teenager to study art, first at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and then at the Art Students League, where s...