Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
15 x 11-1/2 in. (Masonite (TM) 23-1/8 x 19-7/8 in. (framed)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Delavan Smith Fund
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Purchased from (Midtown Galleries, New York) by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1943 (43.24).
Gallery Labels
In Tidying Up, a woman, perhaps a secretary or salesperson, uses a pocket mirror to check her teeth for lipstick smudges.
Bishop saw working women as participants in an American tradition of upward mobility. She used active brushwork and the figure’s physical movement to express this social advancement.
Along with Reginald Marsh, Bishop was part of the Fourteenth Street School, a group of artists who sought to capture contemporary life in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
American Scene, 1920-1940 (America - Dream and Depression, 1920-1940)
Kunstverein Hamburg
January 11, 1980 - February 15, 1981
American Scene, 1920-1940 (America - Dream and Depression, 1920-1940)
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst
November 9, 1980 - January 11, 1981
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