Sandra Fisher at the New York Studio School

Sandra Fisher Self-Portrait as Hamlet 1994
monotype, 30-1/4 x 22-1/4 inches
Collection of Max Kitaj (c) Estate of Sandra Fisher

Sandra Fisher was born in New York City in 1947 and died in London in 1994. She grew up in Florida and California, and received her BFA from the Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, in 1968. In 1970 she was assistant to master printmaker Kenneth Tyler at his Gemini G.E.L. where she met her future husband, R.B. Kitaj. She moved to London later that year.

Fisher staged four solo exhibitions at London galleries: at Coracle Press Gallery, 1982; Victoria Miro, 1987; Odette Gilbert, 1989; and Lefevre Gallery, 1993.

Group exhibitions in which she took part included The Human Clay at the Hayward Gallery, London, 1976; The Pastel in America, Odyssia Gallery, New York; Nudes, at Angela Flowers Gallery, London, 1990; Portraits, Self Portraits, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, 1982; Stroke, Line and Figure, Gimpel Fils, London, and The Male Nude, Homeworks, London, 1983; Representation Abroad, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Gallery, Washington DC, 1985; Mother and Child, Lefevre Gallery, and Die Spur des Anderen/Traces of Another Self, Heine Haus, Hamburg,1988; School of London/Works on Paper, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, 1989; Twin Images, Fine Art Society, London, 1990; Three Women, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1992; and British Museum Society Acquisitions, 1983-1993, British Museum, 1993.

She collaborated on three books with the poet, Thomas Meyer: Sappho, Coracle Press, London, 1982; Sonnets & Tableaux, Coracle Press, London, 1987; and Monotypes & Tracings/German Romantics, Enitharmon Press, London, 1993.

Fisher was represented in the collections of the British Museum, and the London Transport Museum, London; Pembroke College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Academy Museum, New York. Two paintings commissioned by London Transport, Days on the Water and Lazy Days, were published in their series, Art on the Underground. Heineken brewers commissioned a series of paintings for an advertising campaign in 1993, and the artist was at work on a commissioned series for the new Shakespeare Globe Theatre at Bankside, London, at the time of her death.

An American Abroad: Sandra Fisher and her School of London Friends March 30 to May 13, 2006
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	welcome checklist slide show about sandra fisher media release new york studio school	Sandra Fisher Self-Portrait as Hamlet 1994 monotype, 30-1/4 x 22-1/4 inches Collection of Max Kitaj (c) Estate of Sandra Fisher Sandra Fisher was born in New York City in 1947 and died in London in 1994. She grew up in Florida and California, and received her BFA from the Chouinard Art School, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, in 1968. In 1970 she was assistant to master printmaker Kenneth Tyler at his Gemini G.E.L. where she met her future husband, R.B. Kitaj. She moved to London later that year. Fisher staged four solo exhibitions at London galleries: at Coracle Press Gallery, 1982; Victoria Miro, 1987; Odette Gilbert, 1989; and Lefevre Gallery, 1993. Group exhibitions in which she took part included The Human Clay at the Hayward Gallery, London, 1976; The Pastel in America, Odyssia Gallery, New York; Nudes, at Angela Flowers Gallery, London, 1990; Portraits, Self Portraits, Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, 1982; Stroke, Line and Figure, Gimpel Fils, London, and The Male Nude, Homeworks, London, 1983; Representation Abroad, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Gallery, Washington DC, 1985; Mother and Child, Lefevre Gallery, and Die Spur des Anderen/Traces of Another Self, Heine Haus, Hamburg,1988; School of London/Works on Paper, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London, 1989; Twin Images, Fine Art Society, London, 1990; Three Women, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1992; and British Museum Society Acquisitions, 1983-1993, British Museum, 1993. She collaborated on three books with the poet, Thomas Meyer: Sappho, Coracle Press, London, 1982; Sonnets & Tableaux, Coracle Press, London, 1987; and Monotypes & Tracings/German Romantics, Enitharmon Press, London, 1993. Fisher was represented in the collections of the British Museum, and the London Transport Museum, London; Pembroke College, and Peterhouse, Cambridge; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Academy Museum, New York. Two paintings commissioned by London Transport, Days on the Water and Lazy Days, were published in their series, Art on the Underground. Heineken brewers commissioned a series of paintings for an advertising campaign in 1993, and the artist was at work on a commissioned series for the new Shakespeare Globe Theatre at Bankside, London, at the time of her death.