Sleeping Child
Isabel Bishop, American, 1902 - 1988
about 1935
Pen and ink and ink wash over graphite, with framing indications in graphite, on wove paper
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 6 in. (24.7 × 15.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
D.2003.75
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, bottom center: Isabel Bishop
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Katherine Hart, Spring 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, III, Summer 2013
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Summer 2014
ARTH 16.2, Women in Art, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2014
SART 20, 71, Drawing II, III, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2015
SART 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Spring 2019
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2020
SART 15.01, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Fall 2021
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Winter 2023
Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
In Transit: On the Move in New York City, 1910-1950, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 29-March 24, 2013.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 228.
Provenance
Paul J. Sachs; Child Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2003.
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