Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay - Artist Info

About Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay

Name variants

ECF Clay, E C Fisher, Elizabeth Campbell Fisher, Elizabeth Fisher-Clay
  • Biography

    The following biography is excerpted from writing by the artist's daughter, Monica Clay: Courtesy of Sue Rice, Curator of the Louise and Alan Sellars Collection:

    Born in West Dedham, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Fisher did portrait and figure work that has obvious influences of Robert Henri and the Ash Can school of Social Realist painting. She came from ancestors of pure British descent. She graduated from Smith College and then traveled to England and extensively in Europe, often accompanied by her mother. She studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts from about 1899, and then won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York where she joined classes of Robert Henri and studied with Willia...

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