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'''Donald George Fisher''' (born 1928 - September 27, 2009) was an [[United States|American]] [[businessman]] who founded [[The Gap (clothing retailer)|The Gap]] clothing stores.

Since founding the Gap in 1969, Fisher and his wife Doris began collecting [[contemporary art|contemporary]] Western art. In 1993, ''[[ARTnews]]'' Magazine declared Fisher one of the top ten art collectors in the world. His collection, largely housed at the Gap headquarters in San Francisco, includes comprehensive, career-spanning works by [[Andy Warhol]], [[Alexander Calder]] and [[Roy Lichtenstein]], [[Ellsworth Kelly]], [[Gerhard Richter]], [[Anselm Kiefer]], [[Chuck Close]], and [[Claes Oldenburg]]. On [[August 8]], [[2007]], Fisher announced plans to build a {{convert|100000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} museum in the San Francisco Presidio, tentatively named the Contemporary Art Museum of the Presidio, to house his art collection. The museum, if built, will be larger than the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<ref name="art"/> But the plan has engendered widespread skepticism and even outright antagonism among some historic preservationists in San Francisco.<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/18/DDOHVJA7E.DTL&hw=fisher+museum&sn=004&sc=735 Architect waxes poetic with Presidio museum, John King, March 18, 2008]</ref>

In July 2009, Fisher announced that he and his wife were abandoning their efforts to build the museum at San Francisco's Presidio, stating "Doris and I will take some time to consider the future of our collection and other possible locations for a museum, which could include other sites within the Presidio and elsewhere." <ref>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/02/MNJL18HMBA.DTL</ref> In September 2009, Donald and Doris Fisher decided to enter into a partnership with [[SFMOMA]] to display the world famous collection. <ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/25/MNVC19S49B.DTL "Fishers to Partner With SFMOMA on Art Collection", ''San Francisco Chronicle'' (September 26, 2009)]</ref>