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William Fisher was born in 1891 in Brooklyn, New York where he studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and
the Pratt Institute. He served as an ambulance driver in WWI and remained in Europe after the war
in order to study painting in Rome, Italy. Fisher returned
to the United States and pursued painting teaching.
In the 1920's Fisher became a successful
illustrator and his work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls and Harpers
among other publications. Fisher opened an art gallery and school in
New York City in the 1930s with his wife Margaret Kilburn who was also an
artist. In 1949 they opened a summer art school and gallery in Kennebunkport,
Maine. In 1952 his New York gallery closed and Fisher and
Kilburn made a full time commitment to living and working in
Kennebunkport. Fisher recieved over 100 awards. Fisher's work was
exhibited in numerous collections including the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine.
His work hangs in many Kennebunkport Town Offices and local churches.
William Fisher died on March 9,1985 in at a nursing home in Biddeford, Maine.
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