Biography of ORVILLE NORMAN FISHER

FISHER, Orville Norman BCSA, CSGA (1911- ). Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Fisher studied under F. H. Varley at the Vancouver School of Art (1933). Working with E. J. Hughes, Paul Goranson and Charles Comfort, he completed many large mural commissions, often with an historical theme. An official war artist in WWII, he painted in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. He later became head of the Graphics Department at the Vancouver School of Art. In addition to his pastels and watercolours, he is also a highly regarded printmaker producing colour woodblocks and serigraphs of landscapes and coastal mountain scenes around Howe Sound and Squamish. His work is in the CWM, VAG and MMFA. He exhibited with the MMFA in 1955.

Biography courtesy of the Collector's Dictonary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume I: A-F


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