James Bishop

Art career

Bishop's formal art education began in 1950, when he entered the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and studied there for three years. He was subsequently accepted into the Yale-Norfolk Summer Art School in Norfolk, Connecticut. He also studied at Black Mountain College under Esteban Vicente, before spending one year at Columbia College studying art history with Meyer Schapiro.

Bishop went on to reside in Italy, then Greece, His "Paintings and Works on Paper" journeyed to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, and the Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History in Germany, as part of a survey from 1993 to 1994. In its October 2008 issue, Art in America published "Painting by Other Means" by Joe Fyfe, a major review of Bishop work. The exhibition also traveled to the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München and the Art Institute of Chicago. Six years later, the David Zwirner Gallery in New York hosted a solo exhibition of his work. 1966: Fischbach Gallery, New York, New York

Notable collections Farm, 1966, oil on canvas; in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Untitled, 1980, oil on canvas; in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago Untitled, 2002, oil, pencil and colored pencil on paper; in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art