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An example of work by Janet Elizabeth Turner
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Janet Elizabeth Turner, primarily known as a graphic artist of Western
subjects, though painting, as well, was born on April 7, 1914, in
Kansas City, Missouri, growing up there. Her art studies got off
to an uncertain start, when initially she studied biology at Stanford,
changing her major to Far Eastern history when the University dropped
the biology program in her junior year. Then she took some
drawing courses in her senior year, graduating in 1936. Her real
art education began when she studied painting with famed Regionalist
artist, Thomas Hart Benton from 1937-1941 at the Kansas City Art
Institute. She also studied printmaking there with John
DeMartelly. Her studies later continued at the Claremont Graduate
School, California, with Henry McFee and Millard Sheets, resulting in
her M.F.A. degree in 1947. She also studied silkscreen with Edward
Landon. In 1952, Turner attended summer school at Columbia
University Teachers College, receiving her Ph.D. in education in 1960,
following additional study from 1956-1958. Once her art education
finally got under way, it was clearly extensive.
Turner's
subjects included rural and small town settings in Kansas, Colorado,
Missouri, and Texas and, after 1959, a strong emphasis on Western
wildlife. Some works include Goats in Pinon Canyon; New
Mexico Dwellings; Immature Golden Eagle; White Leghorns; Bulldogging
Stock; Guinea Fowl, Among the Tule; and Dead Snow Goose.
Turner
taught at Girls Collegiate School, Claremont (1942-1947); Stephen F.
Austin State College, Nacogdoches, TX (1947-1956); then, in 1959,
California State University at Chico, continuing there until her
retirement in 1983. She was named an "Outstanding Professor" in
the California State University system in 1975.
Jane Turner's
work may be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Cleveland Museum of
Art, Ohio; San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Benzalei National
Museum, Jerusalem; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Victoria and Albert
Museum, London; Society of Wildlife Art of the Nations, Gloucester,
England; Portland Museum of Art, Oregon; William Rockhill Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; and
the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution,
both in Washington, DC.
Turner first exhibited her work around
1937 in Kansas City as a student at the Art Institute. That
started the ball rolling in a career that saw ultra-numerous
exhibitions, including two hundred one-person shows of prints and
paintings in forty of the United States, and in twenty-three cities in
Japan and Israel. She would show her work in every state in the
Union, and in fifty countries on six continents, including the
Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Painting Today, in 1950, and
their Watercolors and Prints, in 1952; the New York World's Fair,
1964-1965; print annuals and biennials at the National Academy of
Design, New York City; American Color Print Society; Brooklyn Museum;
Print Club of Philadelphia, and Society of American Graphic Artists.
Janet Elizabeth Turner died June 27, 1988, in Chico, California.
References:
Who's Who in American Art 1953-1986; Who's Who of American Women
1958-1988; 2000 Women of Achievement, 1969; Who's Who in America
1952-1989; Who's Who in the West 1970-1982; Who's Who in California
1971-1980; Janet Turner; McManus; Edmonson; Art in America, Feb 1956;
La Revue Moderne (Paris), Sep 1960, Jun 1961, Jan 1971; Today's Art,
Oct 1963, May 1966; Art Review Magazine, Fall 1967, Winter 1968;
University Today (California State University, Chico), Aug 1988; Alumni
News (California State University, Chico), Winter 1989; Daily Sentinel
(Nacogdoches), 17 Mar 1953; Nippon Times (Tokyo), 15 Jul 1954; Chico
News and Review, 13 Oct 1983; Chico Enterprise-Record, 31 Jan 1984, 5
Mar 1989; US Census 1920, Jackson County, MO, ED 195, pg 5; B. Edmonson
(sister), 1990.
Source:
Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki Kovinick, "An Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West"
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