Stanley Francis Turner
(1883 - 1953) OSA, ARCA
Previously Sold Works
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Christmas Eve, Yonge Street, Looking North from Richmond Street, Toronto
oil on canvas board
14.25 x 10 ins ( 36.2 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $10,800.00
Sale date: December 13th 2022
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
The Walk Home
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1922 lower right
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $4,956.00
Sale date: November 28th 2019
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Toronto Harbour
gouache on illustration board
signed lower right
14.25 x 19.25 ins ( 36.2 x 48.9 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $3,600.00
Sale date: August 17th 2021
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Three Works: Sillery (Jesuit House); Château Richer, Quebec; English Church from City Hall
gouache
- “Sillery (Jesuit House)”: signed and titled on the reverse (11.5 x 14 ins); unframed
- “Château Richer, Quebec”: signed lower right and titled on the reverse (17.5 x 13 ins); unframed
- “English Church from City Hall”: signed lower left and titled indistinctly on the reverse (19.5 x 15.5 ins); unframed
19.5 x 15.5 ins ( 49.5 x 39.4 cms ) ( largest )
Auction Estimate: $250.00 - $350.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Twenty Christmas Cards
etchings, serigraphs and a book
Printed Christmas cards with twenty unique designs by Stanley Francis Turner (various media and sizes); sold together with “The First Canadian Christmas Carol (First Edition)” by Father Jean de Brebeuf with illustrations by Stanley Turner (inscribed “With the Compliments of the Artist Stanley Turner” and dated “Christmas 1927” on the first page
9.5 x 6.25 ins ( 24.1 x 15.9 cms ) ( book size )
Auction Estimate: $150.00 - $250.00
Price Realized $1,140.00
Sale date: December 15th 2020
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Château Richer, Quebec
goauche
signed lower right and titled on the reverse
16.75 x 12.25 ins ( 42.5 x 31.1 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $1,080.00
Sale date: July 19th 2022
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
A Selection of Eight Works depicting Toronto
eight etchings
Queen’s Park (signed and titled, 3.5 ins x 5 ins); St. Michael’s College (signed and titled, 7 ins x 5.5 ins); Memorial Tower (signed and titled, 7 ins x 4.75 ins); Massey Music Hall (signed, titled, dated “19” and numbered 10/50, 8 ins x 6 ins); City Hall, Toronto (signed and titled, 8.75 ins x 7 ins); Osgoode Hall (signed and titled, 8.75 ins x 5.75 ins); Hart House, Toronto (signed and titled, 8.75 ins x 5.5 ins, tear at lower left corner, within the margin); Queen Street - Toronto (signed, titled and dated “22”, 11.5 ins x 8.5 ins)
11.5 x 8.5 ins ( 29.2 x 21.6 cms ) ( largest (subject) )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $826.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2019
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Quebec from the St. Charles; Lower Town, Quebec
two etchings
- “Quebec from the St. Charles” (signed and titled in the lower margin - 8.5 x 10.75 ins. [plate size]);
- “Lower Town, Quebec” (signed, titled, numbered 3/50 and artist’s stamp in the lower margin - 8.5 x 6 ins. [plate size])
8.5 x 10.75 ins ( 21.6 x 27.3 cms ) ( plate size (largest) )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $780.00
Sale date: September 27th 2022
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
A Selection of Six Works
six etchings
Western University (signed and titled, 7 ins x 5.5 ins plate size); Lower Town, Quebec “No. 5” (signed, 8.25 ins x 6 ins plate size); Timber Line, Banff (signed, titled, dated 1924 and numbered 1/50, 7 ins x 6.25 ins); St. Anne de Beaupré (signed, titled and numbered 39/50, 11 ins x 8 ins); sold together with two additional signed, untitled etchings (3 ins x 3 ins; 4 ins x 5 ins)
10.75 x 8 ins ( 27.3 x 20.3 cms ) ( largest (subject) )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $708.00
Sale date: February 18th 2020
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
September Snow in the Rockies
oil on board
signed lower right; unframed
10 x 11.75 ins ( 25.4 x 29.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $649.00
Sale date: April 14th 2020
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Sillery (Jesuit House)
gouache
signed and titled to a label on the reverse of the frame
9.5 x 11 ins ( 24.1 x 27.9 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Champlain’s Habitation, Quebec, 1608
etching
signed and titled in the lower margin
6.75 x 6 ins ( 17.1 x 15.2 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $400.00
Price Realized $600.00
Sale date: September 27th 2022
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
A Selection of Eight Works depicting Quebec
eight etchings
Monks of Oka (signed and titled, 7.75 ins x 6.25 ins); Chateau Richer (signed and titled, 5 ins x 3.75 ins, contained within a non-archival mat); The House of Madame de Peau, Quebec, (signed, titled and inscribed “No 23” in the margin, 6.75 ins x 5.75 ins); Lower Town, Quebec (signed and titled, 10.75 ins x 7.25 ins); St Anne de Beaupré (signed, titled and numbered 37/50 within the margin, 11 ins x 8 ins); Montcalm House, Quebec (signed and titled, 7.25 ins x 6.25 ins); Lower Town, Quebec (signed, titled and inscribed “No 6” within the margin, 8.25 ins x 6 ins; Laval University, Quebec (signed, titled and inscribed “No 1” in the margin, 11.25 ins x 9.25 ins)
11.25 x 9.25 ins ( 28.6 x 23.5 cms ) ( largest (subject) )
Auction Estimate: $400.00 - $600.00
Price Realized $502.00
Sale date: October 22nd 2019
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
Fifteen Christmas cards; Four holiday studies; Two prints
various media
-Printed Christmas cards with fifteen unique designs by Stanley Francis Turner (various media and sizes)
-Five holiday gouache/ watercolour studies (two of them signed; each measuring approximately 5.75 ins x 4.75 ins)
- Two prints: “Chinese Player” (signed, titled, dated 1922 and numbered 21/50 in the lower margin; 8 ins x 8 ins [subject]); “Somewhere East of Suez” (printed title in the margin; 8.5 ins x 7.5 ins [subject])
5.75 x 4.75 ins ( 14.6 x 12.1 cms ) ( studies )
Auction Estimate: $100.00 - $200.00
Price Realized $510.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
STANLEY FRANCIS TURNER
A Selection of Seven Works
seven etchings
Lower Town - Quebec (signed and titled, 10.75 x 7.25 ins plate size); St Anne de Beaupré (signed, titled and numbered 35/50, 10.75 x 8 ins plate size); The Monks of Oka (signed, titled and indistinctly inscribed, 7.75 x 6.25 ins); Striking the Big Top (signed, dated “24” and numbered 6/50, 7 x 5.5 ins); In the Big Top (signed, dated “24” and numbered 5/50, 7 x 6 ins); Timber Line Rockies (signed, titled and inscribed “no 15”, 7 x 6 ins); St. Anne de Beaupré (Christmas card - signed and titled, 5 x 3.75 ins plate size)
10.75 x 8 ins ( 27.3 x 20.3 cms ) ( largest (plate size) )
Auction Estimate: $300.00 - $500.00
Price Realized $472.00
Sale date: November 28th 2019
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S.F. Turner Biography
(1883 - 1953) OSA, ARCA
Stanley Turner was born in Aylesbury, England, in 1883, and studied at the South Kensington School of Art in London, England. He immigrated to Canada and farmed near Yorkton, Saskatchewan, while continuing to make sketches. In 1911 he moved to Toronto and joined the advertising department of T. Eaton Company and in 1913 won first prize for the Eaton Jubliee Cover competition. In 1918 he joined the design and advertising firm of Rous and Mann Press Ltd., and worked under Franklin Carmichael. He received an Eaton scholarship to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto where he studied with George Reid and J.W. Beatty.
Turner is perhaps best known for his expertly wrought etchings of Toronto and Quebec City street scenes that depict the respective city's distinctive architecture and monuments, as well as for colour woodcuts that exhibit the influence Japanese art had on the artist. Turner is also celebrated for his illustrations in Canadian historical novels and magazines,including McLean's.
The silkscreen of 'Parliament Buildings, Ottawa' was a proud moment for Turner. A sense of Canadian pride was creeping into a national identity, and he recognized this in an illustrative narrative. It was different than most in the series, not typical to idealize a country not yet a century old. The hints of car and truck rooftops speeding over a modern bridge, and the tugboat working were symbols of a country on the move. Even the sky seems to be bending to the will of the buildings thrust toward it. His sense of Canadian pride would have been a subtle reminder as to what the men overseas, and everyone back home, caught up in the war effort were fighting for, without becoming heavy handed.
In 1930 Turner was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was twice commissioned by The Globe and Mail during World War II to prepare illustrated war maps. His paintings can be found in many national museums including Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Canadian War Museum, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Hart House, Toronto, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, New Brunswick Museum, St. John, NB, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England.
