PRESERVED PEACHES. Color lithograph, 1975.

'Preserved Peaches' 1975, Color lithograph.

Preserved Peaches. Color lithograph, 1975.
Janet Fish
Prints and Photographs Division,
Library of Congress
Courtesy of Janet Fish

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Preserved Peaches

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.

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