Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that effect, Bishop half-conceals her figures in shifting shadows and dim spangles of light. She highlights some shapes with dabs of tempera, underlines some with India ink scratches, blurs others out. As a result, her subjects seem to be glimpsed through the rich, hazy surfaces of her pictures. Their evanescent quality led one critic to remark that Bishop was battling an insidious foe, "none other than invisibility...
...Isabel Bishop lives with her husband, Neurologist Harold G. Wolff, and their nine-year-old son in suburban Riverdale, commutes to her Union Square studio five days a week ("Some people say they can't work in the city, but no one ever bothers me here"). She lunches standing up at a nearby soda fountain, watching the people around her and "hoping for something to paint." A tall, brisk woman with braided black hair and attentive brown eyes, Isabel Bishop looks rather like a chemistry teacher in her tattered white working smock...
...exhibition proved, Bishop's work was neither glamorous nor great. But the quiet conviction in her pictures commanded respect; they were...
...long will it be before mankind realizes that large families are a form of selfishness?" demanded the Rt. Rev. Ernest Williams Barnes, bishop of Birmingham, in a lecture at Cambridge University last week. His audience waited for more. Bishop Barnes was at his favorite sport- setting off firecrackers under his Anglican brethren...
...bishop went on. The chief obstacles before mankind at the present time, he cried, are "overpopulation and starvation," rather than "racialism and war." He blamed this sorry state of affairs on "the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and the need for cannon fodder affirmed by the new Western religions of nationalism [which] are producing overpopulation in Western civilization...