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Ethel Fisher
Ethel Fisher (née Blankfield; 1923–2017) was an American painter whose career spanned more than seven decades in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.Preston, Stuart ''The New York Times'', February 20, 1960, p. 21. Retrieved May 5, 2020.Alf, Martha. "Buildings as Icons," ''Artweek'', March 15, 1975, p. 5.Kienholz, Lyn (ed). "Ethel Fisher,''L.A. Rising: SoCAL Artists Before 1980'' California International Arts Foundation, 2010, p. 184. Retrieved May 5, 2020. Her work ranges across abstract art, abstraction and representational genres including large-scale portraiture, architectural "portraits," landscape and still-life, and is unified by a sustained formal emphasis on color and space.Wilson, William. "The Portrait: New Life for an Old Form," ''Los Angeles Times'', April 29, 1979.Loach, Roberta. "Ethel Fisher in Conversation with Roberta Loach," ''Visual Dialog'', December 1977–February 1978, p. 2, 8–11.Smith, Nancy"Rooms With a View" ''Palisadian-Post'', August 17, 2006, p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galveston, Texas
Galveston ( ) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of , with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Galveston, or Galvez' town, was named after 18th-century Spanish military and political leader Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez (1746–1786), who was born in Macharaviaya, Málaga, in the Kingdom of Spain. Galveston's first European settlements on the Galveston Island were built around 1816 by French pirate Louis-Michel Aury to help the fledgling empire of Mexico fight for independence from Spain, along with other colonies in the Western Hemisphere of the Americas in Central and South America in the 1810s and 1820s. The Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
