Harrison Fisher was born in 1875 in Brooklyn, the son of Bohemian immigrant artists. In 1886, the family left New York and moved to the town of Alameda (California). Harrison’s talent was discovered at the age of six. Subsequently, he easily entered the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, and already in his teens he began to earn money by selling his illustrations to local newspapers.

The first serious success in Harrison’s career was the publication of his works by the popular national magazine “Judge”, after which the artist rented a separate studio. A few years later, he was invited to work for a large newspaper of the publishing house of William Randolph Hearst “San Francisco Examiner”, where Fisher was engaged in preparing graphic components of headlines and news. In 1897, Fisher got a job as a cartoonist and illustrator in the famous magazine “Puck magazine”. His name became famous and popular, he enjoyed recognition and fame.

By 1900, he was fulfilling orders for the most famous magazines in America. His bright drawings of beautiful American girls, which he immodestly signed, brought him great success. “Fisher Girls”. Thus, he became an unrivaled illustrator of the “ideal American woman”. Of course, Harrison’s works were somewhat idealized and detached from the real life of American women, but, on the other hand, they conveyed the very idea of ​​​​the ideal of femininity, devoid of everyday and financial problems.

One of the first to start this “gallery of beauty and luxury” was Charles Dana Gibson, in which he was very successful, but in 1905 he passed away, and Fisher turned out to be his logical successor and continuer. In the period from 1907 to 1914, “American Fisher’s Beauties” were published in the form of large art albums more than 12 times. Fisher’s beauties and scenes from the everyday life of the ideal American woman were reproduced on more than 80 postcards. From 1913 until his death in 1934, Fisher created almost every cover for Cosmopolitan magazine. In his later work, Harrison Fisher began to portray famous performers and society ladies, and in 1927 he made portraits of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda.

After Fisher’s death, one of the artist’s relatives kept several paintings for safekeeping, and the remaining more than 900 works from his artistic estate were simply burned!