Margaret Fisher

Artist Details

• First Name Margaret
• Surname Fisher
• Birth Date 1898
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1900
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Architect, Painter-Acrylic, Watercolorist
• Training 1917-1921: AB, University of Wisconsin
  1924: Gloucester; student of Felice Waldo Howell
  1925: Art Students League, New York, New York; student of Boardman Robinson (Canadian, 1876–1952)
  1925: Cambridge University Provincetown program, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  1926-1928: Cambridge School of Architecture
  1923, 1922, 1935: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1924: student of Felice Waldo Howell (American, 1897–1968)
  1932: Cooper Union, New York, New York; student of Austin Purves
  1935:  Provincetown (student of Charles Martin)
  1936: Columbia University (student of Charles Martin)
  
• Relevant Travel 1924: Gloucester, Massachusetts
  
   
• Exhibitions History 1936: The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1939: Philips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. [solo]
  
  1939: St. Paul School of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota [solo]
  
  1939: The Quest Galleries, Chicago, IL (solo)
  
  1940: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas [solo]
  
  1944: The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  
  1944: Philips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  
  June 7-August 19, 1945: Forty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life, oil on canvas
  
  March 28-May 12, 1946: Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists,
  
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Figure, casein
  
  1946: Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  
  1948: Society for Contemporary American Art
  
  June 17-August 15, 1948: Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life, oil
  
  February 10-March 20, 1949: Fifty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life with Fish, oil
  
  May 31-July 8, 1951: Forty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists,
  
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:  Birds of a Feather, oil; Hunters of Janitzio, casein
  
  1965: Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois [solo]
  
  1973: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts [solo]
  
  1974: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Collections The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  DeYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
  
  Harvard University,  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  
  The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  
  Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
• Awards June 17-August 15, 1948: Honorable Mention:  Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Still Life, oil
• Other Occupation(s) 1930: architect with Holabird and Root
• Biography dad a lawyer; diplomat; Secretary of the Interior (under President Taft)
  
  Represented by Aaron Payne Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico