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Janet Turner: Nature's Own
November 18, 2023 through January 6, 2024 Foltz Fine Art is proud to present Janet Turner: Nature’s Own on view from November 18th, 2023 through January 6, 2024, a selection of 25 works by Janet Turner, showcasing her deep dedication to both the natural world and the art of printmaking. Spanning from 1948-1985, the works on view reflect the breadth and mastery of a variety of printmaking techniques including etchings, linocuts, serigraphy (silk screen print) made from 1948 to 1985, predominantly featuring the avian subjects she deeply loved, as well as flora, fauna and other wildlife.
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Janet Turner: Nature's Own
Janet Turner Among the Tule (72/175), 1967 Serigraph 23 x 16 in Framed 33 x 26.50 in $3,800.00
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Janet Turner Beyond the Grasses II (22/50), 1968 Etching 8 x 8 in Framed 170 x 17.25 in $2,600.00
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Janet Turner Calf Auction Lot (Ed./50), 1948 four block linocut 9 x 14 in Framed 17.25 x 21.25 in $3,500.00
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Janet Turner Campus Creek Crossing (A/P), 1973 lithograph/serigraph 13 x 8.50 in $2,300.00
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Janet Turner Chickens (Ed./50), 1948 Four block linocut 12 x 9 in Framed 19.25 x 15.50 in $1,600.00
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Janet Turner Chickens, Artist Proof (Ed./50), 1948 Four block linocut 12 x 9 in Framed 19.50 x 16 in $2,400.00
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Janet Turner Finches and Artichokes (34/54), 1962 linoleum cut and screenprint 12 x 18 in Framed 21.75 x 27.25 in $6,500.00
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Janet Turner Iguana I (3/47), 1976 Intaglio/serigraph 11 x 17 in Framed 21 x 27 in $3,200.00
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Janet Turner Quail Amid Wild Grapes II (4/50), 1966 Linocut/serigraph 14 x 35 in Framed 19 x 40 in $5,200.00
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Janet Turner Raptor Rapture (110/160), 1976 linocut/woodcut/serigraph 22 x 30 in Framed 30 x 37 in $5,600.00
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Janet Turner Red Shouldered Hawk Family (2/155), 1985 29 x 22 in Framed 41 x 33 in $6,500.00
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Janet Turner Roots and Ducks (S/P), 1973 Linocut/serigraph 11 x 34 in $3,200.00
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Janet Turner Some Past is Present II (16/50), 1957 Intaglio/serigraph 8 x 14 in Framed 18 x 24.25 in $3,200.00
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Janet Turner Study of a Calf, 1956 Zinc lithograph 12 x 13 in Framed 19 x 20 in $4,500.00
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Janet Turner Surf Scoters (49/100), 1971 Two plate intaglio/serigraph 17 x 11 in Framed 23.50 x 17.50 in $2,400.00
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Janet Turner Sweet Corn (Ed./50), 1948 Four block inocut 13 x 11 in Framed 21 x 18 in $2,800.00
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Janet Turner Sycamore Snag (76/90), 1963 Linocut/serigraph 35 x 11.50 in Framed 40.50 x 16.50 in $3,900.00
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Janet Turner The Eagle and The Flag (3/40), 1975 Litho/lino/serigraph 13 x 10 in Framed 19 x 15 in $1,800.00
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Janet Turner The Lost Snail (Ed./50), 1949 Four block linocut 13 x 11 in Framed 21 x 18 in $2,200.00
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Janet Turner The Owl (13/200), 1979 offset serigraph 10.50 x 4.50 in Framed 20 x 14.50 in $2,500.00
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Janet Turner Two Crayfish (8/33), 1964 Metal relief etching/aquatint 12 x 9 in Framed 23 x 20 in $1,800.00
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Janet Turner Two Snowy Owls (83/100), 1978 Linocut and serigraph on paper 6 x 8 in Framed 14 x 17 in $1,600.00
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Janet Turner White Pelicans, Ed. 19/30, 1950 linocut block print 10.75 x 17 in Framed 17.25 x 23.75 in $1,950.00
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Janet Turner Wintering Snow Geese (S/P), 1968 Linocut/serigraph 14 x 34 in Framed 21 x 41 in $5,800.00
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Janet Turner Wood Ducks (96/210), 1972 Linocut/serigraph 13 x 23 in $2,800.00
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Janet Turner (1914 - 1988) Janet Elizabeth Turner was a master printmaker, naturalist and art educator. The large body of work brought together for this exhibition is a testament to her legacy as an important American artist and technician with a keen eye to the endless beauty and bounty of the natural world. Turner’s work also reflects her work as an environmentalist and close observer of flora, fauna and wildlife in their natural habitat. Each detailed and carefully created print or painting reveals the beauty of the natural world teaming with life, color and form. The variety of printmaking techniques on view demonstrates Turner’s mastery of serigraphy, linocut, engraving, aquatint, and lithography. The range of color and complexity of each print often entails multiple printmaking processes on a single print. Turner was born in Kansas City, Missouri and developed an early love of the outdoors through nature studies and high school botany classes. She began her studies at Stanford University biology, later switching to history of East Asia. During a trip to Japan, China, the Philippines and Korea in 1936, she became interested in Asian printmaking. From 1937 to 1941 she studied painting at Kansas City Art Institute with Thomas Hart Benton and printmaking with John DeMartelly. Millard Sheets and Henry McFee were influential teachers at the Claremont Graduate School in California where she earned an M.F.A. degree in 1947. Turner studied silkscreen and serigraphy with Edward Landon and eventually earned a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University Teachers College. After teaching at Girls Collegiate School in Claremont, California for five years, Turner moved to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1947 to teach art at Stephen F. Austin State College. During her years in Texas, 1947-1956, she began to work with multiple linoleum block prints of which Bulldogging Stock (1949) and Calf Auction Lot (c. 1948) are early examples. Guinea Fowl (1952) and Egg of the Flamingo (1953) demonstrate the complexity of full-frame composition she achieved with color lithography in the 1950s. The stunning serigraph, Night Watcher (1955) is said to have been created as a response to the close scrutiny she received as a female faculty member. Turner’s work was included the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) American Painting Today, in 1950, and Watercolors and Prints at the MoMA in 1952. In 1959, Turner accepted a teaching position at California State University at Chico, where she continued to teach until her retirement in 1983. She was named an “Outstanding Professor” in the California State University system in 1975. A Guggenheim Fellowship supported Turner’s experimentation combining linocuts and serigraphy as seen in the large subtlycolored print Wintering Snow Geese (1968). California Gulf Coast flora and fauna continued to be the primary subject of her prints throughout the remainder of her career. During her prolific lifetime as an artist, Turner had over 200 solo exhibits on 6 continents. Janet Turner’s work may be found in the collections of the MoMA, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; 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, D.C. California State University at Chico houses the Turner Print Museum and awards an annual Turner Prize in printmaking in her honor. Selected Exhibitions Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1939, 1950 New York World's Fair, 1939, 1964-1965 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1941 Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, 1948 National Academy of Design, New York, 1949 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, 1949 Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1949 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1949, 1951 American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950 San Antonio Art League, Texas, 1951 Art Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1951 Watercolors and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952
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Three Texas Women Painters, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 1952 Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler & Company, New York, 1952 California State University, Chico, 1983 Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1990 Women Artists of Texas 1850-1950, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas, 1993 Janet Turner: Second Nature, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, 2015 Process and Innovation: Carlotta Corpron and Janet Turner, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 2016
Museums & Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Brooklyn Museum, New York National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Museum of East Texas, Lufkin Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California University of California, Santa Barbara Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Portland Museum of Art, Oregon Portland Art Museum, Oregon William Rockhill Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Benzalei National Museum, Jerusalem Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris Victoria and Albert Museum, London Society of Wildlife Art of the Nations, Gloucester, England
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Janet Turner Among the Tule (72/175), 1967 Serigraph 23 x 16 in Framed 33 x 26.50 in
Janet Turner Beyond the Grasses II (22/50), 1968 Etching 8 x 8 in Framed 170 x 17.25 in
Janet Turner Calf Auction Lot (Ed./50), 1948 four block linocut 9 x 14 in Framed 17.25 x 21.25 in
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$3,800.00
$2,600.00
$3,500.00
Janet Turner Campus Creek Crossing (A/P), 1973 lithograph/serigraph 13 x 8.50 in $2,300.00
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Janet Turner Chickens (Ed./50), 1948 Four block linocut 12 x 9 in Framed 19.25 x 15.50 in
Janet Turner Chickens, Artist Proof (Ed./50), 1948 Four block linocut 12 x 9 in Framed 19.50 x 16 in
$1,600.00
$2,400.00
Janet Turner Finches and Artichokes (34/54), 1962 linoleum cut and screenprint 12 x 18 in Framed 21.75 x 27.25 in
$6,500.00
Janet Turner Iguana I (3/47), 1976 Intaglio/serigraph 11 x 17 in Framed 21 x 27 in
$3,200.00
Janet Turner Quail Amid Wild Grapes II (4/50), 1966 Linocut/serigraph 14 x 35 in Framed 19 x 40 in
$5,200.00
Janet Turner Raptor Rapture (110/160), 1976 linocut/woodcut/serigraph 22 x 30 in Framed 30 x 37 in
$5,600.00
2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
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Janet Turner Red Shouldered Hawk Family (2/155), 1985 29 x 22 in Framed 41 x 33 in $6,500.00
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Janet Turner Roots and Ducks (S/P), 1973 Linocut/serigraph 11 x 34 in
$3,200.00
Janet Turner Some Past is Present II (16/50), 1957 Intaglio/serigraph 8 x 14 in Framed 18 x 24.25 in
$3,200.00
Janet Turner Study of a Calf, 1956 Zinc lithograph 12 x 13 in Framed 19 x 20 in
Janet Turner Surf Scoters (49/100), 1971 Two plate intaglio/serigraph 17 x 11 in Framed 23.50 x 17.50 in
Janet Turner Sweet Corn (Ed./50), 1948 Four block inocut 13 x 11 in Framed 21 x 18 in
2143 Westheimer | Houston, TX 77098 | 713.521.7500 | www.foltzgallery.com
$4,500.00
$2,400.00
$2,800.00
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Janet Turner Sycamore Snag (76/90), 1963 Linocut/serigraph 35 x 11.50 in Framed 40.50 x 16.50 in
$3,900.00
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Janet Turner The Eagle and The Flag (3/40), 1975 Litho/lino/serigraph 13 x 10 in Framed 19 x 15 in $1,800.00
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Janet Turner The Lost Snail (Ed./50), 1949 Four block linocut 13 x 11 in Framed 21 x 18 in
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$2,200.00
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Janet Turner The Owl (13/200), 1979 offset serigraph 10.50 x 4.50 in Framed 20 x 14.50 in
$2,500.00
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Janet Turner Two Crayfish (8/33), 1964 Metal relief etching/aquatint 12 x 9 in Framed 23 x 20 in
$1,800.00
Janet Turner Two Snowy Owls (83/100), 1978 Linocut and serigraph on paper 6 x 8 in Framed 14 x 17 in
$1,600.00
Janet Turner White Pelicans, Ed. 19/30, 1950 linocut block print 10.75 x 17 in Framed 17.25 x 23.75 in
$1,950.00
Janet Turner Wintering Snow Geese (S/P), 1968 Linocut/serigraph 14 x 34 in Framed 21 x 41 in
$5,800.00
Janet Turner Wood Ducks (96/210), 1972 Linocut/serigraph 13 x 23 in
$2,800.00
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