Leonard Everett Fisher

Leonard Everett Fisher (born June 24, 1924) is an American artist known best for children's books. Since 1955 he has illustrated about 250 books for younger readers including about 88 that he also wrote.

Fisher was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1924. Raised in the Sea Gate section of Brooklyn, he began his formal art training with his Brooklyn-born father, Benjamin M. Fisher, a designer of naval vessels, who contributed to the construction of Simon Lake submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and such US Navy fighting ships as the USS Arizona, USS Honolulu, and the USS North Carolina. Between 1932 and 1942, Leonard Everett Fisher continued his training at the Heckscher Foundation (NY), with Moses and Raphael Soyer (NY), with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League of New York, and Serge Chermayeff at Brooklyn College. He is a graduate of Yale University (1949, MFA 1950).

Fisher has also designed 10 United States postage stamps including 8 Bicentennial issues, 1975 Stamped Envelope Liberty Tree and the 1978 commemorative "Legend of Sleepy Hollow".

He is also a noted painter.

His paintings, drawings and illustrations are in the collections of the Library of Congress (DC), the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Postal History (DC), the New York Public Library (Donnell), the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), the Butler Art Institute (OH), Mount Holyoke (MA), Bluffton (OH), and Union (NY) colleges, the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration (NY), the Housatonic Museum of Art (CT), the Norwalk Transportation Authority (CT), Brown University (RI), Mazza Museum of Findlay University (OH), the universities of Connecticut, Appalachia State (NC), Oklahoma, Minnesota, Oregon, and Southern Mississippi.

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