Harrison Fisher

"The Study Hour, " Illustration for The Ladies' Home Journal, April 1908

1908

Life magazine interior illustration, June 15, 1893 The full caption reads: “The Stout One: There is nothing left now but a final separation, I fear, with no likelihood of a reconc...

Medium: Watercolor on Paper Laid to Board Signature: Signed and dated 'Harrison Fisher/ 1904' bottom right All Aboard the Ship 'Tabasco' Young fashionable w...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Middle Left Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine (Easter edition), April 1905. This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Sa...

Medium: Unknown Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover

Early in the artist's career most likely for Vogue Magazine. Signed lower left. Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1...

Preliminary Study for the painting Rose and Gold, 1913 Graphite on paper, 1913 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Titlted "Lizzy Young" in pencil upper left (see photo) Lizzy was a modle that Paxton depicts numerous times. The painting that this drawing is related to, is illustrated in Lee & Krause, William McGregor Paxton, 1869-1941, Plate 32, text on page 132. The painting was formerly in the collection of Victor Spark and the Honorable Paul Buchanan. It is currently in a Texas Collection. Provenance: Private Collection, Florida William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American painter and instructor who embraced the Boston School paradigm and was a co-founder of The Guild of Boston Artists. He taught briefly while a student at Cowles Art School, where he met his wife Elizabeth Okie Paxton, and at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Boston. Paxton is known for his portraits, including those of two presidents—Grover Cleveland and Calvin Coolidge—and interior scenes with women, including his wife. His works are in many museums in the United States. Early life He was born on June 22, 1869, in Baltimore to James and Rose Doherty Paxton. William's father moved the Paxton family and established a catering business in Newton Corner, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s. Education Paxton attended Cowles Art School on a scholarship he attained at the age of 18. He studied with Dennis Miller Bunker...

Portrait of Young Woman is an Original Pastel Drawing, realized in the 20th Century Henri Gervex (1852-1929). The status of preservation Good. The artwork is depicted skillfully th...

A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...