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Harrison Fisher
Fisher in 1917
Born	Harrison Fisher 27 July 1875 or 1877 New York City, US
Died	19 January 1934 (58–56)
Education	San Francisco Art Association
Known for	Painting, Photography
Notable work	discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow
Movement	Capitalist realism

Harrison Fisher (July 27, 1875 or 1877 – January 19, 1934) was an American illustrator.

Career

Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. Fisher spent much of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at the San Francisco Art Association.

In California he studied with Amédée Joullin.

In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work. He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson. Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, "Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow. Fisher's work appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine from the early 1900s until his death.

He also painted for books; his work included the cover for George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark, and illustrations for Harold Frederic's The Market Place and Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men on Wheels.

• Theatre poster for Beverly by George Barr McCutcheon (1904)
• Drawing of Dorothy Gibson (1911)
• Cover illustration for Cosmopolitan (October 1917)
• Cover illustration for Cosmopolitan (November 1917)
• Poster for the American Red Cross (1918)

Notes

1. ^ "Harrison Fisher, Illustrator, Dead". timesmachine.nytimes.com. January 20, 1934. p. 15. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
2. ^ Harrison & Carrington 1907 (unpaginated)
3. Success Magazine. Success Company. 1908.
4. Motion Picture Classics, magazine, January issue, 1922

References

• Fisher, Harrison; Carrington, James Beebee. The Harrison Fisher book: a collection of drawings in colors and black and white. C. Scribner's sons, 1907
• Welch, Naomi. The Complete Works of Harrison Fisher.

External links

• Harrison Fisher at FMD
• Harrison Fisher at The Saturday Evening Post
• Works by Harrison Fisher at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Harrison Fisher at the Internet Archive
• Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath, illustrated by Harrison Fisher, from Project Gutenberg
• The Princess Elopes by Harold MacGrath, illustrated by Harrison Fisher, from Project Gutenberg
• Harrison Fisher at Library of Congress, with 64 library catalog records

• 1870s births
• 1934 deaths
• American illustrators
• Artists from Brooklyn