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Janet Elizabeth Turner

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Janet Elizabeth Turner (1914 - 1988) was active/lived in California, Kansas.  Janet Turner is known for Figure, genre, and landscape painter, printmaking.

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 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.   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7968 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Janet Elizabeth Turner


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Birds, Ornithology, Avian Art
  • Botanics, Plant Life
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
  • Still Life
  • Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • China
  • Israel
  • Japan
Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
Art Teacher
  • Millard Sheets
  • Thomas Hart Benton
Art School
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Bill and Mary Cheek Collection
  • Jim and Virginia Moffett Collection
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Figure Specialty
  • Genre Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
Exhibition of Museum
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting

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