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Margaret May Merrill Fisher
(1872 - 1946)
Early in Salt Lake City, Emma Frances Daft (q.v.) and Louise Jennings (q.v.) were joined by other local crafts-oriented practitioners such as J.T. Harwood's (q.v.) daughter Ruth (q.v.) and Margaret Merrill Fisher. The product of an artistic family tradition, Fisher in particular was a gifted Utah worker in the creation of lace products. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Bathsheba S. Merrill (q.v.), another lace maker and designer, Fisher was the winner of a number of Utah Art Institute prizes for her own work in that medium. She was a sister of Utah Art Institute founder, Alice Merrill Horne (q.v.), and like that great lady she did some landscape painting early in her life and some flower still-life subjects in oils later in her career. Also the creator of hundreds of Utah's Professor Marcus E. Jones, Fisher came by that specialization naturally enough as a descendant of Bathsheba W. Smith (q.v.), a grandmother of the artist who had taken prizes back in Nauvoo days for designs and drawings for execution in hand-woven wool, linen, or cotton fabrics. Fisher exhibited four works in the 1890 Territorial Fair (which was just a few years before the first exhibition of the Utah Art Institute).
(1872 - 1946)
Early in Salt Lake City, Emma Frances Daft (q.v.) and Louise Jennings (q.v.) were joined by other local crafts-oriented practitioners such as J.T. Harwood's (q.v.) daughter Ruth (q.v.) and Margaret Merrill Fisher. The product of an artistic family tradition, Fisher in particular was a gifted Utah worker in the creation of lace products. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Bathsheba S. Merrill (q.v.), another lace maker and designer, Fisher was the winner of a number of Utah Art Institute prizes for her own work in that medium. She was a sister of Utah Art Institute founder, Alice Merrill Horne (q.v.), and like that great lady she did some landscape painting early in her life and some flower still-life subjects in oils later in her career. Also the creator of hundreds of Utah's Professor Marcus E. Jones, Fisher came by that specialization naturally enough as a descendant of Bathsheba W. Smith (q.v.), a grandmother of the artist who had taken prizes back in Nauvoo days for designs and drawings for execution in hand-woven wool, linen, or cotton fabrics. Fisher exhibited four works in the 1890 Territorial Fair (which was just a few years before the first exhibition of the Utah Art Institute).
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