Janet Fish

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Treille
1996, 11-c screenprint, 29.75" x 21.75", ed: 60. $4000. (rare)

Ordering Spring
1996, 15-c screenprint, 28.5" x 41", ed: 63. $3000.

Daffodils
1995, 13-c screenprint, 41" x 28.5", ed: 58. $3500.

A.M.
1994, 16-c screenprint, 28.5" x 41", ed: 60. $4000.

Waimea
1993, 13-c screenprint, 41" x 28.5", ed: 44. $15000. (rare)

Cerises
1992, 12-c screenprint, 34" x 28.5", ed: 60. $15000. (rare)

Rose Bowl
1992, 12-c screenprint, 21.75" x 29.75", ed: 60. $2500.

Leyden
1991, 12-c screenprint, 28.5" x 41", ed: 44. $15000. (rare)

Butterfly Wings
1991, 12-c screenprint, 21.75" x 29.75", ed: 61. $3000.

Bananas
1991, 13-c screenprint, 21.75" x 29.75", ed: 59. $2500.

Janet Fish was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938 and raised in Bermuda. Fish received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She also studied at the Skowhegan Summer School, Maine, and the Art Students League, New York,
New York.

Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pennsylvania and many others.

Fish has been honored with various awards and fellowships including the Smith College Medal, 2012; American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 1994; Outstanding Woman in the Arts Award, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, 1993; Hubbard Museum Award, 1991; Australia Council for Arts Grant, 1975; Harris Award, Chicago Biennale, 1974; and MacDowell Colony Fellowships, 1972, 1969, and 1968.

In 1987, Burton Skira & Co. Ltd. published the book Janet Fish by Gerrit Henry. In 1997, John Szoke Graphics, Inc. published The Prints of Janet Fish, A Catalogue Raisonné by Linda Konheim Kramer. In 2002 Harry N. Abrams Inc. published Janet Fish Paintings by Vincent Katz.

Janet Fish created ten fine art screenprint editions in residence at Stewart & Stewart’s Wing Lake Studio starting in 1991. This impressive body of work included a fine art screenprint edition commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1996. All screenprints the artist created at Stewart & Stewart were purchased by the Detroit Institute Arts for their Stewart & Stewart Print Archive.

Janet Fish worked in her studios in New York City and Middletown Springs, Vermont. She passed away peacefully in her Vermont home with her husband and artist, Charles Parness at her side on 11December2025.