Harrison Fisher + Philip Boileau etc collection

A selection of postcards mainly showing artwork by American illustrator Harrison Fisher (1875 or 1877 - 1934) and by Canadian illustrator Philip Boileau (1864-1917), published by Reinhart & Newman.

Harrison Fisher was born on 27 July 1875 or 1877 in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists and he spent much of his youth in San Francisco, where he studied at the San Francisco Art Association.  In California he also studied with Amédée Joullin.

In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work.  He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson.  Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, "Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow.  Fisher's work appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine from the early 1900s until his death in Manhattan, New York City on 19 January 1934.

Philip Boileau (1864-1917) was a Canadian-born Art Nouveau illustrator known for his watercolour and pastel drawings of Victorian-era women.

Reinthal & Newman (American Publishers, 1906-1928) initially produced and sold thousands of postcards from 1906-1920, when they then began to publish art prints, Musée series of old masters works, mezzo prints and lithographs from original illustrations of many famous artists, as well as other works of art.