Fisher William (American 1891-1985) Seascape oil on canvas William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1891. He studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and at Pratt Institute. Following service as an ambulance driver in WWI, he remained in Europe after the war and studied painting in Rome, Italy for one year. Upon his return from Rome, to New Jersey, he pursued his painting and began to teach small art classes.
In the 1920's Fisher became a successful illustrator. His work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls, Harpers and other popular magazines. He later did pen and ink sketches for the "Villager," a weekly Greenwich Village newspaper. Microfilmed pages of the Villager are preserved in New York University's Washington Square Library.
In partnership with Margaret Kilburn, an artist and crafts person, Fisher opened an art gallery and school during the 1930's. They also opened a summer art gallery and school in 1949 in Kennebunkport, Maine, which ran for many years, and, after the NY gallery closed (around 1952), they made a full time commitment to living and working in Kennebunkport, Maine. Fisher was the recipient of over 100 awards. His work was widely exhibited in Philadelphia,Pa., Montclair, Trenton, and Newark, NJ, the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine.
Fisher loved to paint "big" canvases, usually local Maine scenes in later years, done in a thickly painted, darkly outlined modernist style that had a distinct 1930's style about them.

Artist biography:
Birth place: Brooklyn, NY
Studied: PIA School; ASL; Brooklyn Inst.; in Paris
Exhibited: PAFA, 1933; NYWCC, 1936; NAD, 1938, 1943, 1945; Montclair Art Mus., 1938-46; CAFA, 1942-46; Currier Gal. of Art, 1943; Springfield Art Lg., 1944; New Haven PCC, 1944-46; Pepsi-Cola, 1945; Ridgewood AA; Brick Store Mus., 1958. Awards: prizes, Asbury Park, NJ, 1938, 1941; All-Jersey Exhib., 1939, 1940; Newark AC, 1942; Springfield Art Lg., 1944; Pepsi-Cola, 1945.
Member: SC; CAFA; AAPL; Springfield Art Lg.; North Shore AA; Ridgewood AA.
Work: Haddonfield Women’s Club; New Haven PCC; Munic. Bldg., Ridgewood, NJ; Contemporary Women’s Club, Newark, NJ; Presbyterian Church, Garfield, NJ.
Unit Dimensions: 26” x 32”