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Preserved Peaches from 1776 USA 1976 Bicentennial Prints

Janet FishWW-1975-M059753

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Year
1975
Dimensions
irreg composition 26 1/16 x 18 15/16" (66.2 x 48.1 cm)

Artist

Janet Fish
Janet Fish

Painting

Janet Fish is an American painter known for meticulously rendered still lifes of glass, water, and reflective surfaces that emerged from postwar realism. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she constructs compositions of transparent and translucent objects, drinking glasses, bottles, ice, rendered with an almost photographic precision that emphasizes the complex interplay of light, refraction, and shadow. Her work occupies a distinctly formal register, treating domestic glassware as a vehicle for investigating color, surface, and spatial illusion rather than narrative or metaphor.

Boston, MA, USA

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Preserved Peaches, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints

Preserved Peaches, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints

1975 · Color lithograph on paper

WW-1975-136170

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Year
1975
Dimensions
irreg composition 26 1/16 x 18 15/16" (66.2 x 48.1 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1975-M059753

Source

Source
moma
Status
verified

Artist

Janet Fish

Janet Fish

Painting

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