Janet fish artist research

Established in 1971, the Annex Galleries is a salon style gallery which specializes in 19th, 20th and 21st century American and European fine prints. With an inventory of over 8000 works on paper (half of which are available on this website), our focus is American color woodcut, Arts and Crafts prints, WPA prints, modernist and Abstract Expressionist prints from the 1940s and 1960s, prints created at Atelier 17 in New York and Paris, and California prints and printmakers.

Considering the art of the painter Janet Fish, who currently has works spanning fifteen years on display at DC Moore Gallery, I found myself pulling books off the shelf by the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Stewart & Stewart is a printer and publisher of fine art prints, including editioned screenprints and monoprints by artists including Jack Beal, Randy Bolton, Richard Bosman, Nancy Campbell, Susan Crile, Martha Diamond, Connor Everts, Janet Fish, Sondra Freckelton, John Glick, Jane E. Goldman, C.Dennis Guastella, Keiko Hara, John Himmelfarb, Sue Hirtzel, Sidney Hurwitz, Yvonne Jacquette, Hugh Kepets, Catherine Kernan, Clinton Kuopus, Daniel Lang, Ann Mikolowski, Jim Nawara, Lucille…

Artist Janet Fish is known for her bold, Realist still lifes, especially the way she paints everyday items such as clear glassware partially filled with water

(detail) Goldfish and Autumn Leaves, 1979. Oil on canvas. Stanford Museum

Fish’s decision to focus on still life painting was an interesting one. For centuries there has been a hierarchy of subject matter in art – histories or dramas have been the most highly regarded, f…

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