"They would go off to college and when they come home they'd pick up their interest in me, like a parent ... One of my sister had me in Eton collars and tunics; then she went off and another came home and disapproved of those dull clothes and put me in some fancy little things. Everyone was trying to do something to me, except my mother. She was indifferent."
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Painters from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesWomen artistsPeople from CincinnatiWomen born in the 1900s
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Isabel Bishop
Isabel Bishop (3 March 1902 – 19 February 1988) was a major painter of Depression-era social realism. An example of which is her painting On the Street. She was also a pioneer of feminist art.
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