Born: 18 May 1938, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished from the Library of Congress. This piece falls under under public domain, as copyright does not apply to “any work of the U.S. Government” where “a work prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties” (See, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 105).
Boston-born artist Janet Fish (b. 1938) attended The MacDowell Colony in 1969–1970 and again in 1972. In the 1960s, Fish turned her earlier abstract style toward increasingly representational imagery. This image is part of a series featuring vegetables and fruits. Colorful and lushly textured, she isolates her subjects on the page and explodes the scale, encouraging the viewer to take a closer look.