Art History News: ISABEL BISHOP, MABEL DWIGHT, WANDA GAG at Auction

Monday, November 24, 2014

ISABEL BISHOP, MABEL DWIGHT, WANDA GAG at Auction

ISABEL BISHOP

Skinner

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Orange Drink and Donuts

Sold for:

$215

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Two Girls Outdoors

Sold for:

$360

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Noon Hour

Sold for:

$1,126

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Man Placing Coat on Bench

Sold for:

$264

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Office Girls

Sold for:

$764

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Female Nude Study

Sold for:

$1,998

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Two Girls at a Soda Shop

Sold for:

$82

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Five Students on a Flight of Stairs

Sold for:

$235

Bonhams

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Nude

36 x 30in

Sold for US$ 4,200

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988);
Ice Cream Cones No. 1;

Christie’s 2004

ISABEL BISHOP (1902-1988)

TOURNAMENT

PR.$31,070

Christie’s 2001

Christie’s 2000

More Christie's

Isabel Bishop (1902-1988)

Young People

Pr.$30,000

Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)

Walking in the Subway Station (recto); study of figures (verso)

PRICE REALIZED

$5,000

MABEL DWIGHT

Biography

Mabel Dwight was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her formal art education at the Hopkins School of Art in San Francisco. Although initially trained as a painter, she learned lithography while in Paris in 1927, and the balance of her career was devoted to printmaking. During the late 1930s, Dwight participated in the Federal Arts Project in New York City. Throughout her career she exhibited regularly, and her prints were actively collected by public art museums and private collectors.

Commonplace activities or views of daily life often provide the subject matter for Dwight's prints. A characteristic example is the lithograph Farm Yard, which dates from 1947, late in her career. It is a modest scene, showing a woman feeding ducks, geese, and chickens in the farmyard. The buildings have the quality of doll houses; tightly packed, they provide a backdrop for the woman and her flock. This quiet domestic scene is rendered with soft strokes of the lithographic crayon, in a style similar to that of regionalist artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. Dwight's other works often display a humorous or satirical approach, about which she wrote an essay, "Satire in Art," published in 1936.

Swann 2005

MABEL DWIGHT
Houston Street Burlesque.

Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,725

MABEL DWIGHT

Three lithographs: The Ocean, Coney Island, 1928. Edition of 50; In the Subway (Subway; Woman with a Fox Fur), 1927. Edition of 30 * Aquarium (Alligators), 1927. Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 50 *

Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $1,380