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Isabel Bishop, Mending, 1945, oil on fiberboard, 25 1⁄8 x 16 7⁄8 in. (63.7 x 42.8 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation, 1986.6.7
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Mending
- Artist
- Date
- 1945
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 25 1⁄8 x 16 7⁄8 in. (63.7 x 42.8 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on fiberboard
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Occupation — domestic — sewing
- Figure male — full length
- Architecture Interior — domestic — house
- Object Number
- 1986.6.7
Artwork Description
“I have worked for more than twenty years in a studio at the north west corner of Union Square, New York. I have noticed regular denizens of the Square who, sitting on the benches or on the fountain, eating, sewing or rearranging their worldly goods in paper bundles, seem to be leading the most private of lives, entirely oblivious to the public character of the place. The not-beautiful forms of the fountain seem . . . to make a throne for the old man sewing his trousers; his billowing old overcoat [becomes] a robe.”
--Isabel Bishop
Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
Exhibitions
October 20, 2018–November 28, 2018
This exhibition presents some of the most treasured paintings and sculpture from SAAM’s permanent collection, including artworks by Will Barnet, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker, among others.