James Bishop (artist)

James Bishop (born 1927) is an American painter.

Life

Bishop was born in Neosho, Missouri.^[2]

Born to Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Bishop, the artist graduated from Neosho High School in 1945. That same year, he entered Syracuse University, in Syracuse, New York,^[3] and later obtained his bachelor's degree in journalism.^[4]

Art Career

Bishop's formal art education began in 1950 when he entered Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied art for three years.^[5] Following his work at Washington University, Bishop studied at the Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School in Norfolk, Connecticut.^[6] He also spent one year at Columbia College in New York.

Bishop moved to France in 1957 and had his first one-man show at the Galerie Lucien Durand in Paris in November 1963.^[7] He did not return to the United States for nine years.

In its October 2008 issue, Art in America published "Painting by Other Means" by Joe Fyfe, a major review of Bishop work.^[8]

Currently, he works in Blévy, near Maillebois, in France.^[1]

Notable exhibitions

• 1963: Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France^[9]
• 1966: Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York^[1]
• 1993: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland^[1]
• 2008: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany^[1]
• 2014: David Zwirner, New York, New York^[10]

Notable collections

• Farm, 1966, oil on canvas; in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[11]
• Untitled, 1980, oil on canvas; in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago^[12]
• Untitled, 2002, oil, pencil and colored pencil on paper; in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art^[13]

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