 In addition to receiving Guild Hall's Academy of the Art's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, Fischl was extended the honor of membership to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism, such as "Sleepwalker" (1979) which depicts an adolescent boy masturbating into a children's pool.