Anton Otto Fischer"When Adam Delved and Eve Span" Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post1929
1929
About the Item
- Creator:Anton Otto Fischer (1882 - 1962, German)
- Creation Year:1929
- Dimensions:Height: 22 in (55.88 cm)Width: 32 in (81.28 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Fort Washington, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38436300302
Anton Otto Fischer
The marine paintings by Anton Otto Fischer are as authoritative as only a working sailor could make them.
Born in Munich, Germany, but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years before the mast on a variety of sailing ships. Paid off in New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship on the school ship, St. Mary's. He later served as a hand on racing yachts on Long Island Sound and worked as a model and handyman for the illustrator A.B. Frost. When he had saved enough money, he spent two years at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens.
Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moved to Wilmington to receive critiques from Howard Pyle. Everybody's Magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48–year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating serialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugboat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert and Nordhoff and Hall.
In 1942, he was given the rank of Lieutenant Commander as "Artist Laureate" for the United States Coast Guard and was assigned North Atlantic convoy duty on the Coast Guard cutter Campbell during the winter of 1943. The Campbell was disabled during a successful attack on a German U-boat, and Fischer's dramatic paintings of this experience were published by Life magazine. The pictures are now in the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.
In 1947, Fischer wrote and illustrated a book about his earlier sailing years, entitled Focs'le Days: A Story of My Youth, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
Find original Anton Otto Fischer paintings and prints on 1stDibs.
(Biography provided by The Illustrated Gallery)
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Fort Washington, PA
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 14 days of delivery.
- The FleetBy Stanley Massey ArthursLocated in Fort Washington, PADate: 1912 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 19.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower LeftCategory
1910s Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Monroe Street Bridge, Saturday Evening Post cover, June 12, 1948Located in Fort Washington, PAIn this iconic Saturday Evening Post cover, the artist paints himself as the solitary fisherman underneath a Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington....Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Lookout Point, Saturday Evening Post CoverBy Richard SargentLocated in Fort Washington, PAMedium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 18, 1953. The Post described, “Gently, gently now, for both side...Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- The Sloop Dropped Anchor Near the Upper End of the HarborBy Frank SchoonoverLocated in Fort Washington, PAMedium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and dated lower right: Frank E. Schoonover / 33. Inscribed on the reverse: Chapter 6 127 / 1967 The Crimson Cutlass interior book illustratio...Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- The First Flag RaisingBy Frank SchoonoverLocated in Fort Washington, PAMedium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June # 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Going AshoreBy Harry H. HoweLocated in Fort Washington, PAMedium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 18.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower RightCategory
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- "Ebbing Reef" Corals, Large Scale Contemporary Seascape Oil Painting (deep blue)By Karen MarstonLocated in New York, NY60"x144" large scale painting, oil on canvas, created on two joined canvases. The deep blue palette gives a sense of underwater space in this grand depiction of coral reefs. Artist, Karen Marston presents this endangered species in a grand scale to show its beauty and importance to our environment. Karen Marston is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been seen in a number of solo exhibitions in New York City. In addition to her 2018 show Harbingers, at the Owen James Gallery in Soho, other recent solos include: 2017’s To Embrace the Whole Sky with the Mind, at Station Independent Projects on the Lower East Side, Demeter’s Wrath in 2016 at the Owen James Gallery and Storm Watch...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Russian Drone Painting No. 3 (Damascus, 2015)By Lawrence GipeLocated in Santa Monica, CAWilliam Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Russian Drone Painting No. 1 (Mir Diamond Mine, Siberia)By Lawrence GipeLocated in Santa Monica, CAWilliam Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Russian Drone Painting No. 4 (Abandoned Hospital, Moscow)By Lawrence GipeLocated in Santa Monica, CAWilliam Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Russian Drone Painting No. 6 (Ferris Wheel at Pripyat, 2016)By Lawrence GipeLocated in Santa Monica, CAWilliam Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Russian Drone Painting No. 5 (Hong Kong, 2019 Pro-Democracy Protestors)By Lawrence GipeLocated in Santa Monica, CAWilliam Turner Gallery is proud to present a small solo exhibition of paintings by artist Lawrence Gipe called “Recent Pictures,” which draws fr...Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil