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Museums page for Alvan Fisher ((1792 - 1863)), known for Landscape, animal, genre and portrait painting. Showing 33 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1792 Needham, Massachusetts - 1863 Dedham, Massachusetts. Known for: Landscape, animal, genre and portrait painting.
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up his studio in Boston where prominent artists such as Washington Allston, Chester Harding and Asher Durand became his good friends. His records show that he sold nearly 1000 paintings between 1826 and 1863, indicative of his astuteness as a... Read full biography
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. However, his real love was the depiction of animals, and he was the first American artist to paint race horses. Fisher was a student in Boston of John Ritto Penniman, ornamental painter. He first went to Europe in 1825, and then set up his studio in Boston where prominent artists such as Washington Allston, Chester Harding and Asher Durand became his good friends. His records show that he sold nearly 1000 paintings between 1826 and 1863, indicative of his astuteness as a businessman. He traveled throughout the United States, recording observations in his notebooks.... Read full biography
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Museums & Collections (33)
All MuseumsAddison Gallery of American Art
Phillips Academy
Andover, MA 01810-4166Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington, DE 19806Farnsworth Art Museum
16 Museum Street
Box 466
Rockland, ME 04841-0466Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
823 Exposition Boulevard
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292Fogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Helmerich Cntr. for American Research, Gilcrease Museum,Univ. of Tulsa
1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road
Tulsa, OK 74127-2100High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309Mattatuck Museum
144 West Main Street
Waterbury, CT 06702Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404Munson
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502Museum of Art at Brigham Young University
North Campus Drive
Box 23300
Provo, UT 84602-1400Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004New-York Historical Society
2 West 77th Street At Central Park
New York City, NY 10024Onondaga Historical Association Museum
321 Montgomery Street
Syracuse, NY 13202Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
161 Essex Square
Salem, MA 01970Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C6
CanadaShelburne Museum
6000 Shelburne Road
P.O. Box 10
Shelburne, VT 05482Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi Street
Lawrence, KS 66045-7500The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Columbus Museum (COMU)
1251 Wynnton Road
Columbus, GA 31906The Newark Museum of Art
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
401 Museum Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21741-0423White House Historical Association (WHHA)
740 Jackson Place NW,
Washington, DC 20006Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271