Still Life: Fungus
Ilse Martha Bischoff, American, 1901 - 1990
1957
Casein on Whatman's illustration board, toned gray by artist
Sheet: 16 15/16 × 21 15/16 in. (43.1 × 55.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist through the Friends of the Dartmouth Library
W.962.61
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: Ilse Bischoff / 1957; on reverse: [label for] Winsor + Newton's / Watercolor Sketching Board / Whatman's Drawing Paper; on old backing: "On Loan to Harriet + Sven Gundersen -- for the winter until..... Ilse Bischoff, Oct. 1961.
Exhibition History
Ilse Bischoff, A Retrospective, William B. Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat. no.), July 15-August 28, 1966.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29 - May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24 - September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20 - December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Hopkins Center Art Gallery, Dartmouth College, (introduction by Paul Cadmus), Ilse Bischoff, A Retrospective, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1966.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 200, 272, ill. p. 201, no. 69.
Provenance
The artist; given to Dartmouth College Library, 1962.
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