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I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.
Isabel Bishop

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1939 Herbert Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
1945 Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C.
1957 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
1960 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1972 Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
1974 University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
  Wichita State Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Weatherspoon, North Carolina
  Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
1981 Associated American Artists Gallery, New York
  Kirkland College, Clinton, New York
1983 St. Gaudens Museum, St. Gaudens, New Hampshire
1985 Loyola Marymount University, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1936 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1938 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1939 "Golden Gate International Exposition," San Francisco, California
1940 Exhibition of Society of American Artists, New York World's Fair, New York
1942 American Fine Arts Society, New York
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
1943 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1945 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  National Collections of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1946 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
1947 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1949 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
1950 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1951 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
  Toledo Museum of Fine Arts, Toledo, Ohio
1955 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1957 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1959 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
  New York Coliseum, New York
  Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia
1960-61 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
1961 Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
  Suffolk Museum and Carriage House, Stony Brook, New York
1962 Hunterdon County Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey
1963 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1965 Gallery of Modern Art, New York
1966 Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
  High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
  Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
  Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
1967 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1968 Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York
1969 Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
  Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City
  Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1970 Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine
  National Arts Club, New York
  Joint Exhibition with Dorothea Greenbaum, New Jersey State Museum Trenton
  Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City
  Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
1971 Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
  De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
  National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
  Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia
  Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1972 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
  Butler Institute of American Art, Yougnstown, Ohio
  Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Maine
  Wood Art Gallery, Montpelier, Vermont
1973 American Academy of Arts and letters, New York
  Associated American Artists Gallery, New York
  Audubon Artists, New York
  Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul
  Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1974 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
  Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
  Museum of Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 American Embassy, London
  Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
  New York University, New York
1979 Middendorf Lane Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  Sixth British International Print Biennial, London
  Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
1981 Associated American Artists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
  Swain School of Design, Bedford, Massachusetts
1982 Berman Art Gallery, New York
  C.W. Post Center, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York
  Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
  Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York
  Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  Union Square, Open Studios, New York
  University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park
1988 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
   
AWARDS
1936 Noyes Memorial Prize, Society of American Etchers
1941 Watercolor Prize, Butler Institute of American Art
1942 Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize, National Academy of Design
1943 Arts and Letters Award, American Academy of And Letters
1945 Third William A. Clarke Prize, Corcoran Gallery of Art
  Andrew Carnegie Prize, National Academy of Design
1946 First Pennel Purchase Prize, Library of Congress
1947 Noyes Memorial Prize, Society of American Etchers
  American Artists Group Prize, Society of American Etchers
1953 Walter Lippincott Prize, National Academy of Design
1955 Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
1957 Joseph S. Isadore Medal, National Academy of Design
1967 Benjamin Altman Prize, National Academy of Design
1968 National Arts Club Gold Medal
1970 National Arts Club Gold Medal
1972 Creative Oil Prize, Audubon Artists Annual
1973 Best Oil Award, National Arts Club
1974 Purchase Prize, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
1975 Creative Arts Award Medal for Painting, Brandeis University
1979 Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award, presented by President Jimmy Carter
1982 Skowhegan Governors Award
1987 Gold Medal for Painting, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
   
HONORS
1944 Member, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1954 Honorary Degree, Doctorate of Fine Arts, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1964 Benjamin Franklin Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London
1971 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1979 Honorary Degree, Doctorate of Fine Arts, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
1983 Honorary Degree, Doctorate of Fine Arts, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

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Bibliography:
Isabel Bishop." Biographies. Answers Corporation, 2006. Answers.com
Lunde, Karl, Isabel Bishop, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1975.

Yglesias, Helen, Isabel Bishop, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1989.





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