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J P Fisk

J. P. Fisk (late 19th century) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  J Fisk is known for Factory fire painting.

Following is the Skinner Auction House commentary on the painting by J.P. Fisk auctioned by their house on June 5, 2004 in Boston.


Most extraordinary among the auction's paintings is the Painting of the Union Wadding Co. Fire, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1870, by J. P. Fisk (lot 104, $75/125,000).  The Union Wadding Co. produced cotton wadding and batting, and suffered one of Pawtucket's most destructive fires on September 10, 1870.  The event was depicted in meticulous detail by railroad commuter and eyewitness, J. P. Fisk, whose work records the position of the buildings, the steamers, the firemen, the passing railroad trains, the churches and dwellings in the distance, as well as the onlookers, against the backdrop of Pawtucket's skyline lit by the fire's orange glow.

Existing documentation of the fire provides interesting, vivid commentary on the fire.  A passage from the Providence Daily Journal's contemporary accoun   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2227 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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