The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He grew up, one of four children, in... Read full biography
The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He grew up, one of four children, in the suburban Long Island community of Port Washington. His father was a salesman, his mother a... Read full biography
The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He grew up, one of four children, in the suburban Long Island community of Port Washington. His father was a salesman, his mother a housewife who was also an alcoholic. He spent a brief period as a flower child in San Francisco. His interest in art began in 1968 when he worked in Phoenix, Arizona delivering patio furniture and became... Read full biography
The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He grew up, one of four children, in the suburban Long Island community of Port Washington. His father was a salesman, his mother a housewife who was also an alcoholic. He spent a brief period as a flower child in San Francisco. His interest in art began in 1968 when he worked in Phoenix, Arizona delivering patio furniture and became friends with a fellow truck driver who was attending art school. Fischl attended Junior College and then Arizona State University where he studied with Bill Swain who encouraged him to apply to CalArts. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from... Read full biography
The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:Eric Fischl was born in New York City in 1948. He grew up, one of four children, in the suburban Long Island community of Port Washington. His father was a salesman, his mother a housewife who was also an alcoholic. He spent a brief period as a flower child in San Francisco. His interest in art began in 1968 when he worked in Phoenix, Arizona delivering patio furniture and became friends with a fellow truck driver who was attending art school. Fischl attended Junior College and then Arizona State University where he studied with Bill Swain who encouraged him to apply to CalArts. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of Arts at Valencia, California in 1972 and became an assistant professor of Nova Scotia Col... Read full biography
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About Eric Fischl: Books
Books & Publications (66)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
2012
Kennedy, Garry Neill
455 pages (color)
100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Suburbia (Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton Ontario)
2001
Somers, David et. al
26 pages (color)
Eric Fischl Sculpture (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Gagosian Gallery
41 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (Two Volumes)
1997
Lerner, Loren R.
1,820 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Myths and Magical Fantasies
1996
Shaw, Reesey
41 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg
127 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Visions of America Landscape as Metaphor in the Late 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Friedman, Martin (et al)
256 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
The Exile's Return Toward a Redefinition of Painting
1993
McEvilley, Thomas
231 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Drawing Redux
1992
Tuchman, Phyllis (curator)
32 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts
1991
Murken, Axel/Christa Murken
358 pages (color)
Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum
96 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
Scenes and Sequences Recent Monotypes by Erich Fischl (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Cuno, James (others)
120 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Artists and Writers
1990
Schwartz, Sanford
322 pages
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image, 1967-1988 (Exhibition catalog)