Immature Golden Eagle

 

Janet Turner

  1914 - 1988 (biography)

1975  

color linocut, woodcut, and screenprint 

22 3/8 x 29 7/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

20 of 140  

pencil titled and editioned; annotated "NA imp." after signature 

Chico Museum catalogue p. 51, ill. p. 50; illustrated in Chico State Art Gallery catalogue (unpaginated; ca. p. 19) 

soft, heavy cream Japanese wove 

published 

artist 

25183 

$1,500.00 

Janet Turner’s subjects were often informed by the natural world and she had an affinity for bird culture. In Immature Golden Eagle, the immature eagle stands majestically over a prairie dog, proving that he has learned the lessons of soaring, scouting and snatching his prey.

Turner did not create sentimental imagery and she noted, “My work comes from my evolving knowledge of social, biological and ecological relationships. My observations through my art have led to new awareness and have increased my sense of amazement, wonder, my concern about man’s impact on the world, a feeling perhaps imperfectly conveyed to others. I am awed by the richness of nature, interested in details of fur and feathers, which have meaning because they evolved from the relationship of one thing to another…”