Ethel Fisher

Ethel Fisher (American, 1923-2017) was an artist whose works encompassed both abstract and representational painting. Inspired by many different genres including Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism, Fisher’s work spans a multitude of styles, though she is most well-known for her architectural paintings of building facades and her portraits of friends and fellow artists that made up the latter part of her career. Blue Heron Gallery says of the artist, “Ethel Fisher was a painter who lived in Pacific Palisades, California. Ethel Fisher was born in Galveston, Texas in 1923. She studied art at the University of Houston, University of Texas, and Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. After college, she moved to New York City and attended The Art Students League on scholarship from 1943-1946. In New York, she studied with painter Will Barnet, Morris Kantor, and Robert Beverly Hale, and befriended many people in the art world. She married Gene Fisher and their first daughter Sandra was born. Fisher and her family moved to Miami in 1948 where her daughter Margaret was born. Upon her divorce, Fisher travelled in Europe for about a year before returning to New York City in the early 1960s, where she continued to paint and maintained 2 studios for her artwork. She married art historian Seymour Kott in 1963.

In 1970, Fisher and her husband moved to Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, California. Throughout her career as a painter, Ethel Fisher had solo and group exhibitions at galleries in Havana, Cuba; West

Palm Beach, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; New York City, New York; and San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. She was the recipient of numerous awards and continued to paint until her death. In 2003, Fisher had a solo exhibit of portraits at Platt Gallery in Los Angeles.”