Jerrold Turner Small Works Auction for Gallery 621

A long-time member of Gallery 621, Jerrold Turner is offering this selection of artworks to be auctioned to benefit Gallery 621. Jerrold's generous offer recognizes the value of Gallery 621 as one of the Bay Area's premier galleries of contemporary art, as well as the difficulties galleries and artists have faced during the past year of sheltering-in-place and gallery closures.

Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area’s prominent Plein Air painters and a founding member of the Outsiders, a group of plein air painters whose colorful, Fauvist style relates back to such groups as the Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools. Jerrold graduated from UC Berkeley with BS and MS degrees in engineering. He is primarily self-taught in art and painted with Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John. His early influences were Daubigny, Matisse, William Keith, Seldon Gile and Lundy Siegriest.

Jerrold is very influential in the arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. He has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows and his art work is in collections throughout the United States.

Gallery 621 features contemporary artists working in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Located in Benicia, CA, the gallery is dedicated to increasing public awareness of contemporary art.