Young Woman (painting)
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| Artist | Isabel Bishop |
| Year | 1937 |
| Medium | Oil and egg tempera on masonite |
| Dimensions | 76.2 cm × 54.0 cm (30.0 in × 21.3 in) |
| Location | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia |
Young Woman is a painting by Isabel Bishop (1902–1988). It is in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.
Young Woman depicts a white woman[citation needed] staring left of center of the viewer. She is dressed professionally, wearing a hat, white blazer, a scarf, and an orange skirt. She carries a handbag and blue jacket in her right arm. Bishop was inspired by the style of the old masters, whose work she saw in person while visiting Europe in 1931, when creating this piece, which often involved the use of egg tempera, as used in this artwork. Like many works by Bishop, this painting may have taken a year or more for her to complete.[1]