At the age of 41, Don Fisher, along with his wife Doris, left the real estate business and opened up a small clothing shop in San Francisco called “The Gap” which referred to the generation gap which was widening in the United States at the time. The store carried Levi’s in a much more organized manner than local department stores Don visited at the time, realizing that he could do better. And he most definitely did as he brought the company to international acclaim and even expanding with other brands such as GapKids, BabyGap and Banana Republic.

He was more than a success store.

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Art

Comprising more than 1,100 works by 185 artists, the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection is one of the greatest private collections of modern and contemporary art in the world.

The Fishers collected the work of artists they admired in depth, and the collection features major groupings of seminal works by Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol, to name a few.

Charity & Foundations

 Donald and his wife were philanthropists and art collectors, as they founded the KIPP Foundation, a network of free, open-enrollment college-prep schools. Over the years, the Fishers provided $100 million to the foundation and to Teach for America.

KIPP stands for Knowledge Is Power Program. KIPP Delta is a part of the national KIPP network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life.

Donald Fisher was active in several public education causes, including being a major contributor to KIPP charter schools—a national network of low-income, high-achieving college preparatory public charter schools: he was the chairman of the board of trustees of the KIPP Foundation, the non-profit central organization of the KIPP network.He was also a contributor to Teach For America, GreatSchools.net, and EdVoice, a state-wide coalition of California business leaders and others who support education reform. Fisher also served on the California State Board of Education. Fisher and his family donated a generous sum of money to Princeton University in 2006, and the Fisher Hall dormitory at Princeton’s new residential college, Whitman College, is named for him. He has also donated to charter schools and museums in San Francisco, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and paid for public sculptures in San Francisco.In 2007, Fisher was honored as the Alumnus of the Year by the California Alumni Association at the University of California, Berkeley.He also contributed to many Bay Area Jewish causes, including the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund

Family

Doris F. Fisher Born Doris Feigenbaum 1932 Residence San Francisco

Nationality : United States

Ethnicity Jewish Occupation

Retired Known for Co-founder of The Gap

Net worth Increase $2.8 billion (March 2013)

Religion Judaism

Spouse(s) Donald Fisher

Children 3 Robert J. Fisher William S. Fisher John J. Fisher

Museum

SFMOMA has forged a historic partnership with the Fisher family to share this extraordinary collection with the people of San Francisco, housing and displaying art from the Fishers’ holdings alongside works from the SFMOMA collection in a new museum expansion.

Figures with Sunset by Roy Lichtenstein Photo: SFMOMA
San Francisco museum of modern art.With the Collection from Gap Founders, an Expanded SFMOMA Will Become Home to One of the World’s Foremost Contemporary Art Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has closed for renovation May 2015 and that’s good news for the Grand Palais in Paris by making available for exhibition some of the most emblematic works of iconic American artists. Les Icônes Américaines, with titans like Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder and Andy Warhol, among others, has been received by Parisians with open arms and excellent reviews.

EXHIBITION FROM 8 APRIL TO 22 JUNE 2015

American Icons: Masterworks from SF MOMA and the Fisher Collection includes a selection from the SF Moma and the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, the co-founders of Gap, which together are considered among the most important modern and contemporary art collections in the world. The curators had the enviable choice of thousands of pieces by more than 185 artists.

The exhibit features 50 distinctively American paintings and sculptures by some of the most preeminent post-war pop, minimalist, conceptual and pictorial abstraction artists.

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