Bishop was born in Syracuse, NY, on 30 May 1887. He studied engineering at Cornell University. He worked as an electrical engineer until the First World War, when he served in the Army Chemical Warfare Unit. After the war, while in charge of a plant belonging to his father-in-law that often melted down copper printing plates, he became interested in etching. As an artist he was largely self‑taught, although he learned the basics of printmaking from Ernest Roth at the Connecticut School; he later studied painting briefly with Aldro Hibbard and John Folinsbee. Bishop enthusiastically pursued upland game and waterfowl shooting throughout the United States, Canada, Scotland, and elsewhere. He attended field trials often as a gun and, on at least one occasion, as a judge. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that these subjects were his specialty. His prints formed the basis for three books, Bishop’s Birds (which he also wrote), Bishop’s Wildfowl, and The Ways of Wildfowl. In 1936, J. N. “Ding” Darling asked to use Coming In, a Bishop drypoint of Canada geese, for the third Federal Duck Stamp. Bishop’s was the first Duck Stamp to have the lettering entirely outside the image, and the first to be reproduced as a print. He insisted on complete control over the design, which he was the only Duck Stamp artist to have. By the 1940s he was doing much more extensive work in oils, including paintings for calendars and advertisements for Brown and Bigelow, a publisher of calendars and prints in St. Paul, MN, who employed several American artists in the first half of the twentieth century. He was one of the first to use a camera as an aid in painting birds and animals. He discovered, through the use of high‑speed motion pictures, the wide repertoire of aerobatic maneuvers in a duck’s flight, much as Eadweard Muybridge had done for the galloping horse and other animals in the 1870s. As was the case with such noted painters as Percival L. Rosseau, Edmund H. Osthaus, and John M. Tracy and their pictures of upland game, Bishop did much of his painting of waterfowl on commission. Bishop was a member of the Philadelphia (PA) Print Club, the Chicago (IL) Society of Etchers, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers, the Society of American Etchers in New York City, the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Art Alliance of Philadelphia, and the Printmakers of California. He exhibited at the Philadelphia Print Club. Institutions holding his work include the Art Museum of Honolulu, HI; the Museum of Fine Art in Syracuse, NY; the National Wildlife Art Museum in Jackson Hole, WY; and the Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia. Bishop died in Philadelphia, PA, in 1975.