Harlem Loge

Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990

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about 1934

Oil on canvas

Overall: 46 × 50 1/16 in. (116.9 × 127.1 cm)

Frame: 51 × 55 1/2 in. (129.5 × 141 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist

© Isle Martha Bischoff

P.948.35

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Painting

Research Area

Painting

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower left: ILSE/BISCHOFF

Course History

AAAS 91.1, ENGL 53.18, The Harlem Renaissance, J. Martin Favor, Winter 2015

Exhibition History

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.

American Federation of the Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 28-December 1, 1937.

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

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, February 16, 2016-June 30, 2018.

Exhibition organized by The Salons of America Exhibition, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, 1934.

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.

Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 21, 1992.

Portrait of America, Mezzanine Gallery, Rockefeller Center, New York, Second Annual Competition conducted by Pepsi-Cola Company, under the auspices of Artists for Victory, Inc., November 1945, won a $500 award, during 1946 on tour to eight US museums.

Used by Arts Education Services, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1983.

Publication History

Barbara MacAdam, "Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no. 12.

Ilse Bischoff: The Pleasure of Drawing, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1986, p. 12, no. 2.

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

Second Annual Portrait of America Exhibition, New York: Pepsi-Cola Company, under the auspices of Artists for Victory, 1945, no. 7.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 92, no. 68.

Mary K. Coffey, "Feeling Brown or Acting White? Spectacles of Racialized Performance and Pain in José Clemente Orozco's U.S.-based Prints," American Art, vol.37, no.2, Summer 2023, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, pp. 2-27, ill. p. 17, fig. 9.

Provenance

The artist; given to present collection, 1948.

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