In Memoriam This week, we honor a German Neo-Expressionist, the creator of the “Sylvia” comic strip, and an arts patron behind SFMOMA.

Doris F. Fisher (photo courtesy Gap Inc.)

In Memoriam is published every Wednesday afternoon and honors those we recently lost in the art world.

Doris F. Fisher (1931–2026)

Arts patron

The co-founder of clothing retail company The Gap, she, and her husband, Don, amassed one of the country's largest modern and contemporary art collections. The couple pledged more than 1,000 works to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2009.…