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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> "The
Father of A Thousand Girls", <b>HARRISON FISHER (1875-1934)</b> showed
an early interest in drawing and from the age of six was instructed by
his father, Hugh Antoine Fisher, a landscape painter. When his family
moved from Brooklyn to San Francisco, Harrison studied there at the Mark
Hopkins Institute of Art. At sixteen, Fisher had begun to make drawings
for the <i>San Francisco Call</i> and later for the <i>Examiner.</i><BR>
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Soon after returning to New York, Fisher sold two sketches to <i>Puck
Magazine</i> which also hired him as a staff artist. He became noted for
his ability to draw beautiful women, and his Fisher Girls became rivals
to those of Gibson and Christy. The American Girl was a favorite theme
for the magazine then, and Fisher did cover illustrations for most of
them. For many years he was under an exclusive contract to do covers for
<i>Cosmopolitan</i>, but eventually he restricted himself to painting
portraits including many actresses and theatrical personalities. -
Walt Reed<BR>
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<B>[Poem Illustration: <I>Bachelor Belles</I>, 1908; watercolor, 18.75
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