Janet Fish

•Janet Fish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938 and raised in Bermuda.

•Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees was an American Impressionist, her father an art history teacher, and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, a sculptor and potter.

•Janet Fish knew from a young age that she wanted to be an artist. After taking many sculpture classes, Janet found her calling through painting.

•She received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Smith College and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University.

•Fish has shown her work in many major art institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York, as well as the Art Institute of Chicago, and at many venues around the world.

Artists Style: A realist, Fish is well known for her richly executed still life oil paintings, screenprints, and pastels of glass objects, fruit, and flowers. She also sometimes includes figures and landscapes in her work. Her paintings reflect the effects of sunlight on objects and often contain still life objects from her collections of glassware.

Painting Elements: Color, highlights, reflections, transparency and shadows.

June, 1999

Artist :Janet FishTitle: Honey jars Medium :oil on canvas Size :66.3 x 54.5 in. / 168.3 x 138.4 cm.Year: 1971

JANET I. FISH (American, b. 1938). Skowhegan Water Glasses, 1975. Oil on canvas. 40 x 42 inches

TITLE:  Zinnias and Apple  ARTIST:  Janet Fish  WORK DATE:  1995  CATEGORY:  Prints MATERIALS:  Woodcut    SIZE:  h: 24 x w: 18 in / h: 61 x w: 45.7 cm

Janet FishBalloons1999oil on canvas50 x 100 in.

Fish's painting Balloons is complex array of figure, landscape and still life, which she created by combining elements, rather than observing as an actual event. It consists of an outdoor celebration with food, balloons and children playing.

TITLE:  Dragon Kite  ARTIST:  Janet Fish  WORK DATE:  2007   MATERIALS:  Oil on canvas SIZE:  h: 40 x w: 50 in / h: 101.6 x w: 127 cm

Goldfish and Autumn Leaves

January Snow

                                                            

January snow

Monkey Business

Treille Daffodils

Ordering Spring

A. M.

Bananas

Butterfly Wings

Rose Bowl

Leyden

Waimea Cerises

Blue Kimono and Orange Poppies

“…my real subject is light, and light as made by color. But this light also has energy, and it’s always moving.” ~ Janet Fish

Art Project:

Create a holiday greeting card using card stock and pastels.

Incorporate some of Janet Fish’s artistic elements of color, highlights, reflections, transparency and

shadows.

Some ideas: Reflections of trees, snowmen, snowflakes, etc. in the snow or a frozen pond.

Be creative and have fun!!!!