1. Janet Fish was born on May 18,1938 and is a contemporary American realist artist.
18 Facts About Janet Fish
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Janet Fish has been credited with revitalizing the still life genre.
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Janet Isobel Fish was born on May 18,1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Bermuda, where her family moved when she was ten years old.
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Janet Fish's father was professor of art history Peter Stuyvesant Fish and her mother was sculptor and potter Florence Whistler Voorhees.
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Janet Fish's uncle, named Clark Voorhees, was a wood carver and his wife, a painter.
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Janet Fish attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, concentrating on sculpture and printmaking.
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Janet Fish studied under George Cohn, Leonard Baskin, and Mervin Jules.
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Janet Fish spent one of her summers studying at the Art Students League of New York and attended a painting class led by Stephen Greene.
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Janet Fish received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith in 1960.
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Janet Fish enrolled at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, attending from 1960 to 1963.
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In 1963, Janet Fish became one of the first women to earn a Master of Fine Arts from Yale's School of Art and Architecture.
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Janet Fish largely rejected the Abstract Expressionism endorsed by her Yale instructors feeling "totally disconnected" from it and desiring instead the "physical presence of objects".
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Undaunted by the dogma of pure abstraction which reigned in her formative years, Janet Fish connected with images in the real world.
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Janet Fish is interested in painting light and a concept she has on occasion called "packaging", such as jars, cellophane, and wrappers.
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Janet Fish was an art instructor at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons The New School for Design, Syracuse University, and the University of Chicago.
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Janet Fish had two short-lived marriages, which she claims were unsuccessful at least partly due to her high ambitions and her reluctance to be a "good conventional housewife".
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Janet Fish has been honored with various awards and fellowships, including:.
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Janet Fish's work is included in the permanent collection of many institutions and museums.