Preserved Peaches from 1776 USA 1976 Bicentennial Prints
Catalogue
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- irreg composition 26 1/16 x 18 15/16" (66.2 x 48.1 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Janet Fish
Artist

Painting
Janet Fish is an American painter known for meticulously rendered still lifes of glass, water, and reflective surfaces that emerged from postwar realism. Working primarily in oil on canvas, she constructs compositions of transparent and translucent objects, drinking glasses, bottles, ice, rendered with an almost photographic precision that emphasizes the complex interplay of light, refraction, and shadow. Her work occupies a distinctly formal register, treating domestic glassware as a vehicle for investigating color, surface, and spatial illusion rather than narrative or metaphor.
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Preserved Peaches, from 1776 USA 1976: Bicentennial Prints
1975 · Color lithograph on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Janet Fish
- Year
- 1975
- Dimensions
- irreg composition 26 1/16 x 18 15/16" (66.2 x 48.1 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1975-M059753
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Status
- verified

