Women Walking in Subway Station

Isabel Bishop American

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In the early 1960s, Bishop became occupied with picturing groups of disengaged figures walking in subway stations. Her interest in this subject coincided with her adoption of the aquatint technique, a variant of etching that resembles watercolor and allows the artist to create a range of tonal values. The modular planes achieved through the aquatint method endows this work with an abstracted quality that in turn heightens the anonymity of the figures.

Women Walking in Subway Station, Isabel Bishop (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1902–1988 Riverdale, New York), Aquatint and etching

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