AW076 - William Fisher - Oil on Canvas

TITLE: Grist Mill Winter Scene

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COMMENTS: William Fisher (1891 - 1985).      William Fisher was born in 1891 in Brooklyn, New York where he studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and the Pratt Institute. He served as an ambulance driver in WWI and  remained in Europe after the war in order to study painting in Rome, Italy.  Fisher returned  to the United States and pursued painting teaching. 

     In the 1920's Fisher became a successful illustrator and his work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls and Harpers among other publications.  Fisher opened an art gallery and school in New York City in the 1930s with his wife Margaret Kilburn who was also an artist.  In 1949 they opened a summer art school and gallery in Kennebunkport, Maine.  In 1952 his New York gallery closed and Fisher and Kilburn  made a full time commitment to living and working in Kennebunkport.  Fisher recieved over 100 awards.  Fisher's work was exhibited in numerous collections including  the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine.  His work hangs in many Kennebunkport Town Offices and local churches.  William Fisher died on March 9, 1985 in at a nursing home in Biddeford, Maine.