Elizabeth Campbell Fisher Clay was an American lithographer and etcher.
Background
Elizabeth Campbell Fisher was born on April 2, 1871 in West Dedham, Massachusetts to Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Fisher. Her sister Hattie Smith Fisher was born in 1857. Joseph Lyman Fisher was born in 1861 and attended Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Education
She was a student at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in the class of 1892. In the 1890s, she attended the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. At the New York School of Art, she studied under William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, and studied in the Netherlands and Spain.
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She and two artists from Boston were students of Robert Henri and they shared a studio on Quai Voltaire in Paris. Henri came to the studio to review their work twice each week.
Career
Clay had a solo exhibition at Rowland"s Gallery in Boston in 1908. She also exhibited in Boston at the Copley Society of Art, Boston Art Club, and City Club. In England, she exhibited in London for over 30 years, at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1927 and 1928, and at the British Society of Women Artists, Yorkshire Union of Artists, and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Artist
Her work is in the collection of the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia.
Clay died in Philadelphia in 1959.