Girl Reading
1945
Artist, American, 1902 - 1988
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bud Johns and Fran Moreland Johns)
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Dimensions
plate: 18.73 × 11.27 cm (7 3/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
sheet: 26.19 × 16.99 cm (10 5/16 × 6 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3477
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Catalogue Raisonné
Teller 1985, no. 35
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Letterio Calapai, New York; (M. Lee Stone Fine Prints, San Jose, California); Bud and Fran Moreland Johns, San Francisco, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2013-2014
Bibliography
1985
Teller, Susan Pirpiris. Isabel Bishop: Etchings and Aquatints, A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Associated American Artists, 1985, p. 24, no. 35.
2016
Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 279, no. 2529.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: Girl Reading; lower center in graphite: A/P / To Leo Calapai; lower right in graphite: Isabel Bishop; lower center margin in graphite: Printed by the artist before the 1981 Edition of 50 by A.A.A. / "Isabel Bishop," A Cat. Raisonné (No. 35) / Asso. Am. Artists 1981
Wikidata ID
Q77010473