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"The Father of a Thousand Girls"

 

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HARRISON FISHER

MARGERY ALLWORK

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The Fisher Girl: Harrison Fisher was another popular illustrator who specialized in depictions of beautiful women. Like the Gibson Girl, the “Fisher Girl” was aristocratic, confident, and stylish, and her image eventually supplanted the Gibson Girl as the embodiment of the “New Woman.” Fisher continued to develop the idea of the pin-up as a kind of everywoman, and he aligned her with the identity of the nation through such volumes as American Beauties.

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Known models were:

Dorothy Gibson:
    In 1909 she started posing for commercial artist Harrison Fisher, becoming one of his favorite models. Her image appeared regularly on magazine covers, posters, postcards, and in book illustrations over the next three years.

Margery Allwork modeled for Mr. Fisher for over twenty years.

Jeanne Robert Foster [Poet]
    (Christened Julia Elizabeth Oliver, she was known by her penname), who beame the leading model, known as the “Fisher Girl.”
    Chosen the Harrison Fisher Girl of 1903, and his sketch of her sitting on a swing was the October 1903 cover of Ladies Home Journal.
    Illustrations showed her playing tennis or golf, or frolicking at the beach (with no bathing cap, of course, so that the grand locks of hair would never be imprisoned). In one picture for which Jeanne modeled, A Modern Eve, a smiling young woman is tempting her man with a preshly picked apple. She was depicted as Jane Cable in illustrations for George Barr MCCutcheon's novel of the same name.
    Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends By Richard Londraville, Janis Londraville

Marion Davies
    Her beauty was noticed by the famous illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. He painted her as "Morning." Other famous illustrators and artists of the period sought Marion out to be their model as well: Harrison Fisher, Montgomery Flagg, Haskell Coffin, Penrhyn Stanlaws, Nell Brinkley, and Hamilton King.

Oliveretta Elaine Duffy - Olive Thomas (Bernard Krugh Thomas)
    Olive Pickford (Jack Pickford) [Mary and Lottie Pickford's brother.]
    See also:
silentsaregolden.com
prairieghosts.com/hollywood2.html
francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews/olivethomas.htm

1. silent-movies.com
Marian Cooper / Marion Cooper
Before stumbling into the nascent motion picture industry, she was a model for artists Harrison Fisher and Charles Dana Gibson.
2. imdb.com

Isabelle Rogers Finch
    Published: November 12, 1981
    Isabelle Rogers Finch, who was in a World War I recruiting poster for the Navy, died Monday in a
    Long Island nursing home.
    She was 82 years old and lived in Port Washington, L.I.
    Under her maiden name, Isabelle Rogers, she had been an artists' model, posing for
    James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher and Howard Chandler Christy.

Martha Ehrlich/Early/Mansfield
   
classicimages.com
    Commercial photographer Alfred Cheney Johnson took more than 300 photos of her,
    and she was a favorite of illustrator Harrison Fisher.
    She was born Martha Ehrlich in Mansfield, Ohio (thus her stage name)
    Billed as Martha Early; co-starred with Max Linder in three movies, all 1917. She starred in 28 films.
    Ehrlich, Early, or Mansfield -- makes her hard to pin down.

Alice Joyce
    ...by the age of 13 Alice was working as a telephone operator. Business was slow during the summers, so she turned to modeling, and her striking looks soon made her in demand among some of the top commercial artists of the day.

Claire (Merritt) (Hodgson) Ruth     (Babe Ruth's second wife)
    baseball-fever.com (Harrison Fisher model: info on blog - fact or rumor?)
    answers.com/topic/claire-merritt-hodgson

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
    Harrison Fisher's portrait, freely drawn with conté crayon, may reflect the tension he perceived in Zelda Fitzgerald. Fisher depicted her in profile, emphasizing the structure of her nose and chin, and diverting her "hawk's eyes" away from the viewer. Energetic, almost chaotic lines layered over her torso convey her passion—and perhaps even her delicate mental state. Despite outrageous behavior, Zelda was widely praised for her spontaneity, intellect, and dignity.
    The angular features that made Zelda Sayre a stunning beauty when F. Scott Fitzgerald married her in 1920 are accentuated. Fisher, who also drew Scott Fitzgerald, must have been attracted not only to her beauty but to her enigmatic character. Anxious to compete with her husband's success, Zelda pursued numerous creative avenues of her own—ballet, painting and drawing, and writing. None of these efforts met with the recognition she craved.
    Harrison Fisher (1877–1934)
    Sanguine conté crayon on paperboard, 1927
    National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of her daughter, Mrs. Scottie Smith

F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Handsome, socially ebullient, and intellectually vivacious, F. Scott Fitzgerald embodied the spirit of the Roaring Twenties. He staked his claim as the voice of his generation with his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), and later with The Great Gatsby (1925). In late 1926, Fitzgerald was invited to create a movie script in Hollywood. Harrison Fisher captures his self-assurance and boyish good looks as he arrived in California. Fitzgerald's stay in Hollywood would be marred by drunken antics that tarnished his reputation. After eight weeks, his screenplay was rejected. Before heading back east, he and Zelda pushed their hotel furniture into a pile in the middle of the room, leaving their unpaid bills on top.
    The popular heir of celebrated artist Charles Dana Gibson, Fisher was widely sought after as a magazine illustrator and society portraitist. The artist detailed Fitzgerald's high forehead, wavy hair, and mouth with rich conté crayon. "The mouth," wrote Ernest Hemingway about Fitzgerald, "worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more."
    Harrison Fisher (1877–1934)
    Sanguine conté crayon and white paint on paperboard, 1927
    National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of his daughter, Mrs. Scottie Smith

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    Among the prominent stage, film, musical, and literary portraits he painted were: Billie Burke, Marguerite Clark, George Cohan, Jan Cowl, Marion Davies, Mr. & Mrs. Scott Fitzgerald, Elsie Ferguson, Helen Hamilton, Justine Johnston, Alice Joyce, Bessie Love, Pola Negri, Anna Nielson, Julia Sanderson, and Olive Thomas.

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    FISHER, HARRISON: (1877-1934) In his heydey, was called the "King of Magazine-Cover Artists." Embodied the beauty of the American Woman and many of his illustrations were reproduced for postcards by Reinthal and Newman. Very popular and beautiful. His work much in demand!