Harrison Fisher(1877 Brooklyn, NY - 1934 New York) Fisher
grew
up in California, under the artistic guidance of his father, Hugo A.
Fisher. His commercial art career began with routine design
work
for the San Francisco Call
and Examiner.
Moving back
to New York, he started to develop his own style with sketches of
girl's faces. Soon, he was turning out illustrations for
popular
magazines like Scribners,
Cosmopolitan, Life, The Saturday Evening Post and McClure's, ultimately
earning
the title "King of Magazine-Cover Artists." At the height of
his
popularity in 1910, he was earning the unheard of sum of $50,000 a
year. He was a close friend of fellow illustrator Howard
Chandler
Christy, and they agreed to paint portraits of each other.
Christy completed his portrait of his friend, but Fisher died of
a
heart ailment before he could paint Christy. As a testament
to
his public stature, his eulogy was delivered by Broadway legend, George
M. Cohan. 
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