
Catalogue
- Year
- 1974
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 198.2 × 289.6 cm (78 × 114 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Joseph Raffael
Artist

Printmaking
Joseph Raffael is an American painter born in 1933 whose practice centers on the close observation of water, fish, and aquatic environments rendered in luminous, hyperrealistic detail. Working primarily in watercolor and oil, he constructs immersive compositions that dissolve the boundary between scientific documentation and abstract light play. His work emerged from the postwar American engagement with nature as a subject of sustained perceptual intensity.
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The Luxembourg Gardens
1982 · Lithograph on paper
Two Fish in Dark Bubbly Water
1978 · Watercolor with brush and black ink, over traces of graphite, on off-white heavy wove paper
Muir
1978 · Oil on canvas
White Lily
1977 · Watercolor on white wove paper
Moonlight, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints
1975 · Color lithograph on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Joseph Raffael
- Year
- 1974
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 198.2 × 289.6 cm (78 × 114 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1974-132571
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




