Elizabeth Clay
1871-1959

Born in West Dedham, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Fisher did portrait and figure work that has obvious influences of Robert Henri and the Ashcan school of Social Realist painting.  She graduated from Smith College and then traveled to England and extensively in Europe, often accompanied by her mother.  She studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts from about 1899, and then won a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York where she joined classes of Robert Henri and studied with William Merritt Chase at the Chase School in Madrid, and on several occasions returned to Spain with Henri.

 

Biography courtesy the artist’s daughter, Monica Clay