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Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this essential artist’s career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty pass judgement on. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, vigorous personality, rich and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored within the new automobiles even as holding court for admiring men. Fisher’s portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels in addition to hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher’s work extremely hot at the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will take pleasure in the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide creator Bruce Magnotti.