18 Facts About Sandra Fisher

Fisher was born on 6 May 1947 in New York City and her family moved in 1948 to Miami, where her father Gene Fisher was a homebuilder.

Sandra Fisher's mother, Ethel Fisher, was a painter who taught her to draw and paint at an early age; her sister is the performance and media artist, Margaret Fisher.

Sandra Fisher graduated from Metter High School and, after moving to Los Angeles, California, enrolled in art school.

Sandra Fisher died at the age of 47 from hyperacute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis.

Sandra Fisher studied minimalist art and sculpture, graduating in 1968 with a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute, but soon recognised that her compelling ambition was to be an intimate, observational painter.

Sandra Fisher worked a few hours a week for the historian Ariel Durant, whose ideas about art history helped her come to terms with her current emphasis on style, an artifact from her years at Chouinard.

Sandra Fisher occasionally sat in on classes by David Hockney at the Slade School of Fine Art and from 1975 began to hire models to sit for her.

Sandra Fisher was an invited lecturer at art schools in and around London, and she often spoke on women painters.

Sandra Fisher was a lively, welcome figure at the heart of London's art community, a trained musician and avid reader and art historian as well as painter.

Sandra Fisher enjoyed popularity with London commuters for her posters commissioned by the London Transport Art on the Underground series, notably her colourful, languid image of boating in Regent's Park, Days on the water and her Lazy days, by Tube poster.

Sandra Fisher collaborated with the poet Thomas Meyer on three books and her drawings often appeared in the journal London Magazine.

Sandra Fisher obtained permission to draw at opera rehearsals in London, including that of Wozzeck.

Sandra Fisher's work entered collections held by the British Museum, the London Transport Museum; Pembroke College, Cambridge; and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

Sandra Fisher created a series of paintings for Heineken Brewery as part of a 1993 commission.

Sandra Fisher was hired by Marlborough Gallery in 1972 as Kitaj's studio assistant.

Sandra Fisher seemed like a shining California miracle of new-old Jewish womanhood invented in the Diaspora.

Sandra Fisher's example has been a major influence on me.

Sandra Fisher was one of the first women painters to succeed in painting the male nude as an object of desire.