Richard Bishop
American (1887-1975)
Etcher and painter Richard Bishop was born in Syracuse, New York and studied engineering at Cornell University. After serving in World War I, he settled in Philadelphia. Game birds and waterfowl were Bishop’s specialty, and he roamed habitats up and down the East Coast to capture images for etching. Bishop published two books of illustrations, Bishop’s Birds and Bishop’s Wildfowl, the works for which he is best known today. In 1936, Bishop was asked to design the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting stamp.
Bishop’s work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Stark Museum of Art.
