
Margaret French, Fire Island
Catalogue
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 4 3/16 × 6 5/16" (10.6 × 16 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Jared French
Artist

Painting
Jared French was an American painter and printmaker known for his precisely rendered figural compositions and social realist imagery. Working primarily in egg tempera and lithography from the 1930s onward, French developed a distinctive style combining classical draftsmanship with modernist formal restraint. His postwar paintings often depicted isolated or grouped figures in austere interior and landscape settings, marked by cool tonality and psychological distance. French's technical mastery and restrained emotional register positioned his work apart from both abstract expressionism and the more gestural realism of his contemporaries.
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Record
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- Jared French
- Year
- 1939
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 4 3/16 × 6 5/16" (10.6 × 16 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1939-M122526
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





