Seated Woman with Hat

 

Isabel Bishop

  1902 - 1988 (biography)

1949 /printed 1981 

engraving 

5 7/8 x 4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

45/50, from the second edition 

titled in block lettering along lower left sheet edge 

Teller 44; AAA 2530 

cream wove Rives 

second printing within edition, published 1981 

Associated American Artists (AAA) 

13276 

$400.00 

A woman in an elaborate hat and furs sits with legs crossed, cigarette in hand, waiting. Her face, shown in side profile, expresses a sense of resignation. In her usual style, Isabel Bishop chooses a simple, everyday scene, but lends the composition intrigue in presenting a well-dressed woman whose body language suggests the end of a long day.