Anya Fisher (1905-1992) Abstract Landscape - The Mountain - Oil on Canvas P2899
A beautiful landscape, mystical and powerful. It's a very strong work by this highly individual artist. The painting itself is prominently included in Vol. II of Maurine St. Gaudens magisterial survey, "Emerging From The Shadows, A Survey of Women Artists Working In California, 1860-1960". (We can't recommend her book too highly, lavishly illustrated with penetrating essays about each artist.)
One can also find it reproduced in the December 2018 issue of American Art Review in an Article by St. Gaudens and Joseph Morsman. "California Women Artists Emerge, 1860-1960", as well as in American Fine Art Magazine's Sept/Oct 2018 issue in a Museum Preview featuring 2018-2019's ground-breaking two-part exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of History, "Something Revealed", curated by Ms St. Gaudens, who wrote that article as well.
All of which speaks to the special importance of this transcendent work.
Measures 36" x 36", frame is 42" x 42". It's a large painting: pickup at the warehouse only. Or contact us to arrange special shipping.She was born in Odessa, Russia, to an affluent artistic family; she and her remaining family fled Odessa during the Bolshevik Revolution. Fisher immigrated to Minnesota, where she had a short career playing with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, which enabled further musical studies at L'École des Beaux Arts at Fontainebleau until funding dried up, putting an end to her musical career. After a brief marriage she moved to California, to San Francisco where she started writing art reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, and met her husband Edward J Fisher. Then, at 41, in 1946 she began to pursue painting and drawing seriously, moving to Los Angeles where she studied with Rico de Brun at the Jepson Art Institute.She also studied at L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Returning to LA. she formed important relationships with Betye and Richard Saar and Frederick Hammersley, and started exhibiting prolifically. She worked professionally in the arts as a painter, poet, and teacher for most of her adult life.
She died in southern California in 1992.
Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California (2001, 1986, 1985, 1984)
Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena, California (1983)
Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, California (1975)
Pasadena Society of Artists at Pacific Culture Museum, Pasadena, CA (1974)
University of Southern California (1969)
Manhattan Galleries (1964)
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California (1959) Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California (1958)
Anthes Gallery, Los Angeles (1951)
Forsythe Gallery, Los Angeles (1950).
A partial list of her group exhibitions follows:
Pasadena Society of Artists annual exhibit (1964ˆ1986)
Japan & Formosa (1967, 1968)
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, California (1967)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art rental gallery (1956)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, National Drawing Show, California (1948).
A partial list public collections:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Degree: M.F.A., Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles, California (1951).
A fine video from the Sullivan Goss Gallery on her life and work:
