Anne Harriet Fish was one of the defining visual voices of early twentieth-century illustration, shaping the graphic identity of magazines such as Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, The Tatler, and Vogue during the years surrounding the First World War and the exuberant decade that followed. Her distinctive line, poised between caricature and fashion illustration, captured the rituals, excesses, insecurities, and refined absurdities of high society with unmatched wit.

This archive brings together complete restored editions of High Society (1920) and The Eve Book (1916), two publications that helped cement Fish’s reputation among contemporaries such as Charles Dana Gibson and Aubrey Beardsley. The High Society plates — originally published in Vanity Fair — depict debutantes, dowagers, socialites, butlers, tango dancers, bridge players, hostesses, and self-absorbed aristocrats with an elegance that borders on ornamental abstraction. Many of these compositions were conceived as double-page spreads, and the restored versions here preserve the seamless continuity often lost in modern reproductions.

Alongside these books, the archive includes a growing selection of illustrations from Harper’s Bazaar and other period magazines. Their themes — fashion, theatre, social life, wartime anxieties, weekend rituals, and the early modern woman — provide an exceptional window into the cultural atmosphere of the 1914–1930 era. Fish’s graphic vocabulary, with its Beardsley-like flourishes and rhythmically balanced forms, anticipated many later developments in editorial design (see the Portfolio & Flair Magazine archives).

Her work also intersects with the wider world of decorative arts and stylized modernism that defined the interwar years. The elegance, restraint, and theatricality seen in Fish’s drawings resonate with the aesthetic climate that would later shape Art Deco interiors and architectural detail in cities like New York (see the NYC Art Deco Interiors Archive).

As Ikonographia continues to expand its collections, the Anne Harriet Fish Archive grows with newly restored plates, contextual essays, and previously unpublished materials. Together, these works preserve the legacy of an illustrator whose contribution to modern graphic culture remains profound yet often overlooked.