Janet Fish

Janet Fish is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include elements of transparency, reflected light, and multiple overlapping patterns depicted in bold, high color values. She has been credited with revitalizing the still life genre.

18 May 1938

Born on the same birth day (18 May): Albert Hammond • Brent Ashton • Darius Šilinskis • Ingvild Kjerkol • Irene Hunt • Jimmy Snuka • Lee Hendrie • Omar Khayyam • Stuart Percy • Walter Gropius

Born in the same month (May 1938): Andrew Clennel Palmer • Carroll Cole • Christopher Bland • Giuliano Amato • Herbie Flowers • Igor Ter-Ovanesyan • Ivan Sutherland • Jean Giraud • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya • Michael Murphy (actor) • Mireille Darc • Moisés da Costa Amaral • Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho • Omar Abdel-Rahman • Pervis Jackson • Prince Buster • Richard Benjamin • Stuart Bell • Teresa Stratas