Robert M. Fisher
Robert Miles Fisher (November 12, 1928 – August 19, 2007) was an American abstract artist in oils, watercolor, charcoal, and welded sculpture. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Robert moved to Plainfield, Vermont in 1946, and began attending Goddard College. It took him eight years to finish his degree, as he worked his way through college. Robert's degree thesis at Goddard was on international communities. He was not yet painting seriously until moving to New York City, where he was offered the opportunity to work with Hans Hofmann at his New York School. In the 1950s and early 1960s Robert received two large commissions to work for other sculptors, Ibram Lassaw (one of the founders of the Abstract Artists Association) and Herbert Ferber. He went on to produce welded sculptures of his own, exhibiting in juried shows, selling, and receiving commissions, notably for a "...large stainless steel piece in which the mirror finish ... picked up the reflected the colors of the sun and fall leaves." Robert considered this "...to be a piece using modern techniques and materials, yet following the ancient polychromatic form of the Greeks and Egyptians." Mid-1960s, Robert moved back to Vermont permanently, so he could live less