Hugo Anton Fisher's son painted Watercolour painting landscape . Framed, glass on the front.
Size:
framed 17,5"X13,5"
unframed 9.5"X13.5"
Born in Brooklyn, NY on Oct. 20, 1878, the son of artist Hugo Anton Fisher. At age eight Hugo Melville moved with his family to Alameda, CA where he grew up. By that time his father had taught him to paint. After graduating from high school, he was in Hawaii for two years.
Shortly after the turn of the century, he went to Europe and spent the next 16 years there. While in Paris, he studied with Whistler, Bouguereau, Laurens, and Benjamin-Constant. His exhibitions in London and Paris received favorable reviews from the local press. While there he was a member of the American Art Assn and Friars Club.
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Above is the artists father's biography from WIKIPEDA:
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.[1] In 1874, he immigrated to New York,[1] and in 1886, he moved to Alameda, California with his wife and children.[2] About 1894, Fisher moved to Hawaii and opened a studio in Honolulu, but he left Hawaii for the mainland late in 1896.[3] Fisher died in Alameda, California in 1916.[1][2][4]