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Janet Fish

Janet I. Fish (Born 1938) is active/lives in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts / Bermuda.  Janet Fish is known for Modernist glitz still life and portrait painting.

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Known for large still lifes of common objects with bright colors--lime green, pink, yellow--, Janet Fish works from a loft in the SoHo section of New York City and takes pride in the fact that she paints "forbidden subjects," realistic still lifes.  Her work, expressive of her highly independent spirit, is a reaction against the pure abstraction that has been prevalent for so many years in the American art world, especially in New York.

She was born in Boston into a family of artists.  Her grandfather was impressionist Clark Voorhees; her mother was a sculptor, which Janet originally wanted to be; and her sister, Alida, is a photographer.  Janet, who grew to be nearly six-feet tall, spent much time in her childhood at the Old Lyme Colony in Connecticut with her artist grandfather and there was much influenced by American Impressionism.

At Smith College, she studied sculpture and printmaking with Leonard Baskin and also studied sculpture at Ya   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11443 characters.]  Artist bio

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