Consists of music scores inscribed by Dr. Paul van Katwijk and Mary McLarry Bywaters. BSC.1995.0041
Includes catalogs, clipping files, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials related to the career of this art instructor who taught in Dallas and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s. BSC.1992.0027
The Janet Turner Collection was donated to the Jerry Bywaters Special Collections Wing in 1993 by Dr. Turner’s sister, Barbara Turner Edmonson, and brother, Colonel John M. Turner. It contains prints, as well as etching plates and linoleum printing blocks related to these works, by this member of the Texas Printmakers who served on the art faculties of universities in Texas and California. Janet Turner (1914-1988) studied lithography at the Kansas City Art Institute from 1936 to 1941 under the instruction of John de Martelly. While teaching at Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches, Texas during the late 1940s and early 1950s, Turner adapted the compositions of her paintings into prints. In 1952, Turner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore the fusion of linocut and serigraphy techniques, while examining the plant and animal life of Texas. As her mature style developed, Turner experimented with the linocut technique, combining multiple blocks and colors within intricate compositions. From 1959 until 1983, Turner taught at Chico State College in California and cultivated its printmaking program; CSU instituted the Janet Turner Print Gallery in 1981. Turner drew much of her inspiration from nature and called the intrinsic, personal elements of her prints “expressive symbolism.” BSC.1993.0034
The Jerry Bywaters Special Collections Wing is located in the Jake and Nancy Hamon Arts Library and holds archival materials on visual and performing arts of the American Southwest.
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