Janet Fish is a contemporary realist
painter and printmaker who was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938, and raised
on the island of Bermuda. Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees, was an American
Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher,
and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, a sculptor and potter. She went to
Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and studied
sculpture and printmaking at Smith College in Massachusetts, and graduated from
Smith in 1960. She then went on to Yale University School of Art and
Architecture in Connecticut, where she received her B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine
Arts) and M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) degrees in 1963. (She was one of the
first women artists to receive her MFA from Yale.)
Janet Fish History
Janet Fish is a contemporary realist
painter and printmaker who was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938, and raised
on the island of Bermuda. Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees, was an American
Impressionist painter who inspired Janet. Her father was an art history teacher,
and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, a sculptor and potter. She went to
Skowhegan Summer School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and studied
sculpture and printmaking at Smith College in Massachusetts, and graduated from
Smith in 1960. She then went on to Yale University School of Art and
Architecture in Connecticut, where she received her B.F.A. (Bachelor of Fine
Arts) and M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) degrees in 1963. (She was one of the
first women artists to receive her MFA from Yale.)
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