Romantic Print of Golfers
Harrison Fisher, 1905
Match Play
Harrison Fisher (1875-1934) (after)
A. Grignard & Company, New York (printer)
Match Play
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1905
Color-process print
16 x 10.5 inches
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An attractive young woman and man dressed in white take a break from their golf game beneath a tree. The punning title hints at a budding romance between the two.

Harrison Fisher was a popular illustrator known for his paintings of elegant American women, which became known as "Fisher Girls." His illustrations both reflected and influenced the ideal of feminine beauty of the early 20th century, and he was viewed as an authority on the "American Beauty" - his searches for models were highly publicized and he served frequently as a beauty pageant judge. He began his career in New York as a staff artist for Puck Magazine, and soon was drawing cover art not only for them but for the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Collier's and others, but was most closely associated with Cosmopolitan. Eventually, he moved on to book covers and portrait painting; his subjects included actresses, singers and writers such as F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Due to the popularity of his images, magazines that owned the rights to Fisher's illustrations reproduced his illustrations on postcards, prints, and other ephemera. Often, these prints have a higher collectible value than individual bookplates, because fewer have survived to the current day.

Reference:

"Artists' Biographies." Illustration House. http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/fisher_bio.html (26 September 2002).

Speed, Melissa. "Harrison Fisher and the American Beauty." Fall 1999. http://members.tripod.com/~MCSpeed/fisher.html (26 September 2002).