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In 1961, Ethel Fisher left Miami and her family to concentrate on her painting. After travelling in Europe for a year, she resettled in Manhattan with her second husband, art historian Seymour Kott. She rented a studio with Ilse Getz in a loft building at 30 East 14th Street overlooking Union Square;
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Fisher is best known for portraits of fellow artists from the 1960s and grid-like, architectural paintings of the facades of urban cast-iron buildings from the 1970s. Her figurative work employs color fields and architectural details as abstract shapes to create tension between her subjects and their
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as a springboard, many of these works feature arrangements of objects stabilized by a central wooden box and seek a "mood between menace and melancholy." She began to stack her objects vertically—which is unorthodox for still lifes—and included miniature artwork reproductions as postcards within the
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in the 1940s, Fisher gained recognition as an abstract artist in Florida in the late 1950s, and began exhibiting nationally and in Havana, Cuba. Her formative work of this period embraced the history of art, architecture and anthropology; she referred to it as "abstract
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street-scene renderings, however, she modified her subjects with invented and remembered colors and expressive, loose brushwork, seeking to create personal interpretations and building "portraits." Critics compare the tight, shallow spaces and grid-like organization to
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After moving to New York City in 1962, Fisher returned to figurative work and began working with collage on paper. She participated in New York group shows at the Castagno, A.M. Sachs and Capricorn ("Artists by Artists" show) galleries, and Los Angeles shows at the
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In the early 1970s, Fisher felt that her portraits were moving toward a formula. She spent the next seven years producing a body of architectural paintings and graphite drawings that embraced discipline and a restrictive palette. She was influenced by the work of
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critic William Wilson could write of a portraiture "revival"; his review of the "Portraits 79" exhibition describes Fisher's work as bringing "spare simplification to women of an aesthetic-intellectual type resting in small apartments … haunted by past pain."
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motifs. She eventually focused on monumental works that carefully record iconic, frontal views of ornate facades (usually four to six floors), sourced from black-and-white photographs of buildings in New York, Chicago, Galveston and St. Louis.
462:("Cubism Now and Expressionism in the West," 1961). While Fisher found many exhibition opportunities, she was not taken on by a New York gallery, a circumstance she attributed to a professional climate that often rejected women artists. 497:) and received a solo showing the same year at the Mitzi Landau Gallery. By the end of the decade, Fisher was again painting the figure and showing her work in "California Figurative Painters" (1977, Tortue Gallery), which included 668:, she turned to the figure, eventually choosing a humanistic approach rather than Pop Art's flat, distanced style. She took evening lectures at the Art Students League with the well-known anatomy instructor, 223:
and representational genres including large-scale portraiture, architectural "portraits," landscape and still-life, and is unified by a sustained formal emphasis on color and space. After studying at the
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magazine featured the house and Fisher's decorating and paintings in a 1974 spread. She continued to work in her studio until her death in 2017, after which the house was bequeathed to the
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Fisher's late-1960s work sought greater representational specificity and psychological depth in portraits of herself, family and artist friends, such as Henry Pearson and
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In the late 1970s, after a break from portraits, Fisher resumed figurative work, conveying psychological overtones through details of clothing and interior spaces (e.g.,
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Following her move to the West Coast in 1969, Fisher began the body of work for which she is best known, the building paintings, which previewed in a group show at
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surroundings and impart psychological depth. Her later, carefully rendered interiors and still lifes often include reproductions of works by well-known artists.
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home on a slope above the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Palisades; its architecture and ocean and mountain views appear in many of Fisher's paintings. The
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in 1983. The Fishers moved to Miami in 1948, where Ethel installed a studio in the family home and a second daughter, Margaret, was born;
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took place. Their account of that night was published in several books about the murders. In 1971, they bought a 1926, multi-level
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and others, in "Video Interviews of 27 California Artists" (1976), produced for Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Her drawing
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frescoes in Europe, Fisher decided that she had reached an impasse with the era's dominant abstract mode. Like others, such as
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At the end of the decade, Fisher and Kott left New York and rented a property in the Hollywood Hills next door to the home of
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Fisher appeared in the show, "Painting, Color, Form and Surface" (1974, curated by Martha Alf), along with Diebenkorn,
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Fisher continued to paint portraits of herself, her family and art-world friends, such as
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Fisher exhibited widely while based in Miami. She had solo shows at the Lowe and Mirell galleries (1954) and
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is a performance and media artist and writer, married to composer and new music conductor Robert Hughes.
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From the 1980s onward, Fisher turned increasingly to the California vistas surrounding her home (e.g.,
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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, January 6, 2020. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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Jaume, Adele. "Cultural Activity, Mastery and Sensitivity, the Paintings of Ethel Fisher,"
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One Hundred Years: A Centennial Celebration of the National Association of Women Artists
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and the late-19th-century cast-iron buildings of her youth in Galveston, with their
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Fisher turned to still lifes in her later career. Using the strong simple forms of
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Later that year, the couple moved to New York City, where Fisher attended the
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arrangements, recalling the ubiquitous postcard collections of many artists.
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to Sam and Ada (Zax) Blankfield. She studied art from 1939 to 1943 at the
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Barnet, Will. "Ethel Fisher," Catalogue, Miami, FL: Mirell Gallery, 1954.
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Loach, Roberta. "Ethel Fisher in Conversation with Roberta Loach,"
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review compares their entwining, suggestive shapes to the work of
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constructions, and the use of diagonal shafts of light (e.g.,
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would emigrate to London, where she was included in the first
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Art in Focus: Ethel Fisher, "Room on East 89th Street," 1965
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Seckler, Dorothy. "Can painting be taught? Barnet answers,"
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Wilson, William. "The Portrait: New Life for an Old Form,"
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University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts alumni
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the building was occupied at various times by artists
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Bates, Colleen Dunn (ed). "Q & A: Ethel Fisher,"
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galleries and LACMA ("The Contained Object," 1967).
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Fine Arts Building, Chicago (410 S. Michigan Avenue)
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Tenth Annual Exhibition of the Florida Artist Group
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Fisher's papers are in the collections of the 367:show, "The Human Clay," and married the painter 219:, Miami and Los Angeles. Her work ranges across 1275: 1273: 1271: 272:, and belongs to the public collections of the 1822:, Ethel Fisher website. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1802:, Ethel Fisher website. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1733:, Ethel Fisher website. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1710:, Ethel Fisher website. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1634:Ballatore, Sandy. "Current Concerns Part II," 1318: 1316: 295: 1742:Ahern, Charlene. "Buildings Live on Canvas," 1680: 1678: 1139: 1137: 858:California Landscape II/with fire in distance 851: 822:California Landscape II/with fire in distance 1718: 1716: 1672:, September 28, 2000. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1355: 1353: 1351: 1349: 1347: 1345: 1268: 844:art. Alf writes that Fisher's facade image, 1646: 1644: 1628: 1313: 1077: 1075: 907: 905: 903: 901: 899: 1785: 1675: 1466: 1464: 1462: 1460: 1431: 1412:, Home Section, August 26, 1956, p. 1, 3G. 1134: 1131:, November 2, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1048: 1046: 1020:, December 1977–February 1978, p. 2, 8–11. 1012: 1010: 1008: 974: 972: 970: 968: 966: 767: 403:, which dominated the New York art scene. 335:on scholarship, with classmates including 29: 1749: 1713: 1415: 1396:, January 1, 2019. 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"Artful Intellect," 1399: 1326:, New York: Angeleski Gallery, 1960. 1239: 1198: 954:Kienholz, Lyn (ed). "Ethel Fisher," 922: 578:National Museum of Women in the Arts 574:Smithsonian Archives of American Art 278:Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 1760:Corbusier Chair in Front of Terrace 1602: 1534: 1483:Bugliosi, Vincent and Curt Gentry. 1329: 1252: 1226: 1182: 941:Alf, Martha. "Buildings as Icons," 644:In the early 1960s, after studying 256:Fisher's work was written about in 13: 1615: 1423:"Margaret Fisher in Three Pieces," 1408:. "Let's Stay Home and Have Fun," 1285:Who's Who in World Jewry, Volume 2 1159:Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 638:Two Figures (Profile)/Orange Space 314:Washington University in St. Louis 14: 1934: 1849:, Fairfield University Art Museum 1829: 1780:Painting, Color, Form and Surface 1599:, Artists. Retrieved May 5, 2020. 1527:Lonky, Liz. 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Painter Ethel Fisher, in her Miami studio in 1956.
Galveston, Texas
Pacific Palisades
Art Students League of New York
University of Houston
University of Texas
Washington University
Sandra Fisher
Margaret Fisher
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Ethel Fisher
New York City
abstraction
Art Students League
impressionist
Abstract Expressionism

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Dallas Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles
Galveston, Texas
University of Houston
University of Texas
Washington University in St. Louis
Howard Cook
William McVey
B.J.O. Nordfeldt
Art Students League

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