Medium/Discipline: Painting, Works on Paper
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Place of Death: New York City
Maryland Affiliation: Born here
Prominent Theme: Murals
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: In 1872, Charles Yardley Turner went to New York and entered the National Academy of Design; after three years of instruction there, he won a bronze medal and a money prize for his work. He used the money for a trip to Paris to study under Laurens, Munkaczy and Bonnat. In Holland, he found the subject for his famous work The Grand Canal at Dordrecht. He worked in watercolor and oils; he used watercolor to depict a Dordrecht milkmaid. Turner served as assistant director of decoration at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, as well as director of color at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York in 1901. He was a longstanding member of the National Academy of Design. His finest mural is a series of walls in the corridor of a Baltimore court house.
Selected References: Benjamin, S. J. W. Our American Artists, 1879; Our American Artists, Second Series, 1881 (New York: Garland Pub.), 1977.
Blashfield, Edwin. Mural Painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; with numerous reproductions of representative works. (New York: C. Scribner's Sons), 1913.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Baltimore Museum of Art (print)
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