Margaret Fisher
American painter, 1898–1990
Fisher was a modernist who painted mainly with watercolor and oil paints. Her paintings encompass representational and abstract works.
Her first exhibition was in 1936 at The Coliseum in Chicago, IL. She has had solo exhibitions at Philips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1939, St. Paul School of Art in St. Paul, MN, in 1939, The Quest Galleries in Chicago, IL, in 1939, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, in 1940, Fairweather-Hardin Gallery in Chicago, IL, in 1965, and Harvard University Busch-Reisinger Museum in Cambridge, MA, in 1973. Fisher’s group exhibitions include those at The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo, MI, in 1944, Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1944, Milwaukee Art Institute in Milkwaukee, WI, in 1946, and The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, in 1974.
The artist’s work can be found in collections at The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, Harvard University, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco, CA, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Her estate is represented by Aaron Payne Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM.
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