Harrison Fisher (July 27, 1875 or 1877 – January 19, 1934) was an illustrator. He was elected to The Lambs in 1914 as a Professional member. That year he was the illustrator of the Lambs Public Gambol cover. He is credited with discovering Clara Bow, the first “It Girl.”
Fisher was born in Brooklyn and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. Fisher spent much of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at the San Francisco Art Association. In California he studied with Amédée Joullin.
In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work.
He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson. Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine’s, “Fame and Fortune” contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered Clara Bow.
His art illustrated popular novels and art books by Charles Scribner’s Sons and Bobbs & Merrill Publishing. He sketched F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and drew portraits of actresses Marion Davies, Olive Thomas, and Dorothy Gibson, a survivor of the Titanic. His illustrations were the cover art on every issue of Cosmopolitan magazine for 22 years, for a total of 293 cover illustrations.
Fisher’s artwork was also featured on covers of the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, among others. His illustrations were syndicated and reprinted in standalone artbooks of his work, as prints, postcards, and on calendars, playing cards, calendar plates, tins, and other household items.