Awarenress Post: Janet Turner

Born in Kansas city, Janet Turner's work focuses primarily on birds and the natural enviornment. Her work is made in an effort to raise awareness for conservation efforts, which she first discovered a love of through high school botany classes and observing nature. Turner works in many mediums, such as wood carving, linoleum blocks, egg tempera, watercolor, and screen printing.

Education:

• Standford University: biology / hisotry of the Far East

• Kansas City Art Institure: Painting and Printmaking

• Claremont Graduate School in California: M.F.A

• Columbia University Teachers College: Ph.D in education

Work: https://www.artsy.net/artist/janet-elizabeth-turner

Finches and Artichokes (34/54), 1962 (34/54), 1962 linoleum cut and screenprint12 x 18 in

In this peice of Turner's I espeially admire her use of color. I think the way she chose to focus on only green and gold/ yellow is very effective. Additionally, I appreciate the way the colors echo those of Art Neaveu, which I am also fond of. Going forward, I might try to utilize this color scheme or one similar in my own work.

Campus Creek Crossing (A/P), 1973, lithograph/serigraph 13 x 8.50 i

I really appreciate the patterning Turner employs in this peice. I love how while there are still birds in the work, they are less discernable and the leaves / patterning become the focus. I think it makes for an interesting composition. I may try to employ this technique in my own work, and use patterning as the focus of the peice with birds worked more discretely in, rather than occupying the veiwers whole attention.

Red Shouldered Hawk Family (2/155), 1985 (2/155), 198529 x 22 i

In this peice I appreciate the texture turner employed, not only in the birds and their feathers but also in the trees /leaves. In my own work, I may try to focus more on using the tetures of the natural world as their own sort of patterning. Additionally, I like that while she has a few birds that occupy the center of the peice and the veiwers focus, there is one bird flying in the back behind the foreground. I think this establishes a sense of depth, something I want to do in my own work.

Wintering Snow Geese (S/P), 1968 (S/P), 1968Linocut/serigraph14 x 34 in

In this serigraph, I really like the sense of movement turner was able to establish as well as the way she uses the birds themselves to make a pattern. I love how these birds/pattern echo the movement of the one larger bird, guiding the viewers eye in the main birds line of movement. In my own work I hope to emply a similar technique, using birds as a pattern as well as possibly employing them to establish a sense of movement / depth.

U.S Exhibitions:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today–1950 and Watercolors and Prints –1952

• New York World’s Fair 1964–1965

• Brooklyn Art Museum, major print annuals or biennuals

• Print Club of Philadelphia

• Society of American Graphic Artists

• American Color Print Society

• Library of Congress

• National Academy of Design, New York

Overseas exhibitions:

• 4th International Bordighera Biennale, Italy

• NAWA exchanges with Holland, India and Italy

• SAGA exchange with London

• Boston Public Library USIS circuit Twentieth Century Graphics Arts

• Metzger Gallery USIS circuits 50 Years of American Print & Serigraphs and How They are Made

• Grand Prix Internationale de Peinture de la Cote d’Azur, Cannes, France

• 23rd Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte Graphica in Sienna and the 30th in Athens

• 1977 USIS circuit to 8 cities in Japan

• LAPS Korean exchange

• 7th International Print Beinnale in Cracow, Poland

• 1983 Salon of the Nations, Paris, France

Collections

Paintings or prints are in some 90 college or museum collections, including:

• Benzalei National Museum, Jerusalem;

• Biblioteque Nationale, Paris;

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London

• Society of Wildlife Art of the Nations, Gloucester, England

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Cleveland Museum of Art

• Boston Museum

• San Francisco Museum of Art

• Brooklyn Art Museum

• Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art

• Wm. Rockhill Nelson Museum, Kansas City

• Heard Natural Science Museum, Houston

• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts

• The Museum of East Texas, Lufkin

• National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

• Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC

Private Collections

• Hewlett-Packard

• Hallmark Cards

• Reader’s Digest

• Tupperware Corporation

• Eagle Pencil Company

• National Steel Corporation

• Rosenwald Collection

• D.D. Feldman Oil Company

• R.D. Strauss Collection

• Gannett Company 9USA Today)

• Vernon and Marie Fish Collection

• Larry and Pat Juanarena Collection

• Betty Wilson Powell Collection

• Robert and Anna Mae Sylvester Collection

• Richard A. Sylvester Collection

• Paul and Cory Lautin-Gear Collection

• James Wilson Collection
  

Honors & Awards

• Academician of National Academy of Design

• Honorary Vice President, Centro Studi e scambi Internazionale, Rome, Italy

• Honorary member Phi Eta Sigma

• Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters

• Diploma di Benemerenza, Academia “Leonardo da Vinci”

• Academie of Italy with gold medal

Memberships

• Independent Printmakers, Kansas City, Missouri 1937–242

• California Watercolor Society 1947–1963

• Boston Printmakers 1952–1960

• Texas Fine Arts Association, 1947–1960; Trustee

• Texas Watercolor Society 1951–1960

• Texas Printmakers 1948–1968

• National Serigraph Society 1954–1962; President 1957–1959; Vice President 1959–1962

• Print Club of Albany 1964–1988

• National Academy of Design, Associate 1952–1973; Academician 1974–1988

• Los Angeles Printmaking Society 1960 –1988

• National Association of Women Artists 1949–1988

• Society of Graphic Artists 1949–1988

• Audubon Artists 1952–1988