Anna Fisher studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and upon graduation in 1900, joined that school's faculty. She taught there continuously for forty years. She was represented in the Society of American Artists exhibitions of 1903 and 1905, and in 1913 was included in an exhibition of work by nine women artists at the Powell Galleries, New York.
Fisher maintained a studio in the Van Dyke Building in New York. A watercolorist as well as a painter in oils, she belonged to the American Watercolor Society, the New York Watercolor Club, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, the New York Society of Painters, the Allied Artists of America, and the National Arts Club. A regular participant in the exhibitions of the organizations of which she was a member, as well as in other venues, Fisher received awards for her paintings in exhibitions of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (1919), the New York Watercolor Club (1921), the Baltimore Watercolor Club (1922), Grand Central Art Galleries, New York (1930), and the National Arts Club (1932).
Fisher's work was first shown in an Academy annual in 1904, and she rarely missed an annual thereafter. She specialized in still lifes, especially of flowers, but often featured objects with highly reflective surfaces. During the 1900s, she submitted several paintings whose subject was the English landscape to the Academy. In the 1910s the titles of paintings she showed at the Academy indicate that she was spending some time in Gloucester, Massachusetts; thereafter she showed still lifes only. The Pratt Institute mounted a memorial exhibition of her work in April 1942.
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