He studied art with Moses Soyer and Reginald Marsh and was graduated from Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, a school with an extraordinary arts program. At age sixteen he entered Brooklyn College where he studied art with Serge Chermayell. A short time later, in 1943, Fisher left his college studies to begin active duty with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Serving as a topographer with the army he participated in the cartographic planning of major campaigns in European and Pacific areas. His first professional writing experience involved describing some of his unit's involvement in these operations for the army.
Following his stint in the army, Fisher enrolled at Yale University, from which he earned a B.F.A. in 1949 and an M.F.A. in 1950. While a graduate student at Yale, Fisher served as an assistant instructor, teaching design theory. As recipient of the Joseph Pulitzer Scholarship in Art and the William Wirt Winchester Traveling Fellowship, he sailed to Europe in 1950 for extensive travel throughout Europe. Upon his return from Europe he accepted a job with Auriel Bessemer as assistant muralist, but gave it up one week later to become the dean, at the young age of twenty-seven, of the Whitney School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut.
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