Hugo Anton Fisher (1854 – November 27, 1916) was an artist primarily known for painting landscapes in watercolor. He was born into a family of artists in Kladno, Bohemia. In 1874, he immigrated to New York, and in 1886, he moved to Alameda, California with his wife and children. About 1894, Fisher moved to Hawaii and opened a studio in Honolulu, but he left Hawaii for the mainland late in 1896.Severson, 2002 Fisher died in Alameda, California in 1916.AskArt.com
/ref> One of Fisher's children, Hugo Melville Fisher (1878–1946), was a California-based

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painter. The Adirondack Museum (Blue Mountain Lake, New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the

Hawaii State Art Museum The No. 1 Capitol District Building, on the site of the former Armed Services YMCA Building, now houses the Hawaii State Art Museum and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. History While they were both in the cabinet, under King ...

, the Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, New Jersey), the Oakland Museum of California, and

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(Greenville, Pennsylvania) are among the public collections holding work by Hugo Anton Fisher.Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Inventories Catalog
/ref> Landscape View With Cows Drinking Water

References

* Forbes, David W., ''He Makana, The Gertrude Mary Joan Damon Haig Collection of Hawaiian Art, Paintings and Prints'', Hawaii State Foundation of Culture and the Arts, 2013, pp. 26–27 * Severson, Don R. ''Finding Paradise: Island Art in Private Collections'', University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 82–3.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Hugo Anton 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters American landscape painters Artists from Hawaii Czech painters Czech male painters 1916 deaths 1854 births 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists Painters from Austria-Hungary Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States