b'In 1949, the eighteen-year-old Janet was accepted by Mauricio LasankyathisacclaimedUniversityofIowaprintworkshop, whereherfirstassignmentwasanengravedself-portraiton display here.Two other etchings made under Lasansky look like premonitions of the artist she is today. One portrays a family through their carwindowandtheothershowsafilmprojectedinanIowa City movie theater. The first prefigures her Park Avenue works developed from the late 1960s through the 1970s and the second is an intimation of the paintings into which she would begin to project her own videos around 2008-2009. Clockwise:Family Outing, 1949. Intaglio. 21 x 24 inchesSelf-Portrait,1949-50. Burin. 17 x 15 inchesMovie Theater, Iowa City, 1950. Intaglio, Etching. 17 x 15 inchesEtchings created by Janet Ruttenberg at age 1814 15'