Picnic on the River

Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990

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1937

Tempera on canvas laid on Masonite

Overall: 21 × 36 in. (53.4 × 91.5 cm)

Frame: 38 × 43 in. (96.5 × 109.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

P.959.108

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, in ink, lower left: Ilse Bischoff

Exhibition History

American Paintings from the Dartmouth Collection, 1910-1960, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 17-April 12, 1998.

Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August, 1981-May, 1982.

Curator's Choice: Dartmouth College Permanent Collection, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss, and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1976-January 16, 1977.

Hail, Holy Land: The Ideal of America, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 27-September 7, 1980.

Ilse Bischoff, A Retrospective, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1966.

Ilse Bischoff: The Pleasure of Drawing, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 7-May 18, 1986.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 29-December 7, 2003.

Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 2-September 13, 2006.

Publication History

Ilse Bischoff: The Pleasure of Drawing, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1986, p. 11, no. 2.

Hopkins Center Art Gallery, Dartmouth College, (introduction by Paul Cadmus), Ilse Bischoff, A Retrospective, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1966.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 93, no. 69.

Provenance

The artist (1901-1990), Hartland, Vermont; given to present collection, 1959.

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