Show harrison fisher first in portraying beauty the alie artistry of a french frelich peasant maid who concealed her scantiness of hair with some ribbon was the odd inspiration that aused caused II arrison fisher to draw the first of his long series of magazine covers idealizing the beauty of young feminine america ile he was known as the father of a thousand pretty girls but he never married beaded in brooklyn schooled at the mark hopkins institute in san francisco widely traveled in england and on the continent fisher knew the girl of the new york drawing in room and of the western plains lie ile was horn born during the garfield arthur period he saw the fashionable world in coaches behind teams and in the side saddle on bicycles and in linen dusters go goles goggles les and flowing motor yells veils and t then hen in limousines ou sines ile he felt the wild pulsation of the spanish war and lived through the world war well into an exciting period of readjustment ile he knew victorian england and the eno england land of edward and george fisher portrayed rather than interpreted thousands of drawings and illustrations that flowed fro from m the point of his pen have been for an interesting generation far closer to the american home than the tamed famed treasures lian hanging ing in museums abroad cleveland plain dealer |