Grace Turnbull Explained

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Grace Hill Turnbull (December 30, 1880 – December 26, 1976) was an American painter, sculptor and writer.

Biography

Born to a cultured family in Baltimore,[1] Turnbull studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York. She then turned her attention to sculpture, studying at the Rinehart School of the Maryland Institute and in Rome.[2] In 1914 she received the Whitelaw Reid Prize in Paris,[3] and she received the Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize in 1932 and 1944.[2]

Turnbull was notorious during her life for her commitment to abstinence in many fields – she objected strenuously to alcohol, and served only apple juice at her own gatherings – and her support for civil rights. She lived in Baltimore for much of her life in a house and studio, which was designed by her brother Bayard.

Besides her artistic pursuits she wrote a number of books, including Tongues of Fire (1929)[4] and Fruit of the Vine (1950).[5] Her autobiography Chips from My Chisel was published in 1953,[6] and she also editor Essence of Plotinus (1934).[7] Turnbull also wrote pamphlets and contributed articles to a variety of publications. One example is the eight page pamphlet, Battle Front as Seen by a Sculptor, published by the Women's International League in 1936.[8]

Turnbull's 1941 sculpture, Python of India, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[9] while two of her public artworks, a memorial to Lizette Woodworth Reese and a statue of a naiad, remain in Baltimore.[10] A collection of her papers is held at Syracuse University. Her house at 223 Chancery Road[11] in the Guilford neighborhood, which she had willed along with a collection of artworks to the Maryland Historical Society,[12] still stands. Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1996.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dorsey . John . 26 May 1996 . Grace Turnbull: an artful life Art: Baltimore Museum of Art will exhibit paintings and sculpture by Baltimore's multitalented artist. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160920145341/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-05-26/news/1996147189_1_baltimore-museum-museum-of-art-artful-life . 20 September 2016 . 11 February 2017 . The Baltimore Sun .
  2. Web site: Grace Hill Turnbull Papers: An inventory of her papers at Syracuse University . 11 February 2017 . Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries .
  3. Book: Jules Heller. Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 19 December 2013. Routledge. 978-1-135-63882-5.
  4. Book: Turnbull, Grace Hill . Tongues of fire; a bible of sacred scriptures of the pagan world . 1929 . The Macmillan Company . New York . English . 1262708.
  5. Book: Turnbull, Grace Hill . Fruit of the vine, as seen by many witnesses of all times. . 1950 . Baltimore . English . 4068234.
  6. Book: Turnbull, Grace Hill . Chips from my chisel an autobiography. . 1953 . R.R. Smith . Rindge, N.H. . English . 965748926.
  7. Book: Plotinus . The essence of Plotinus: extracts from the six Enneads and Porphyry's life of Plotinus . Turnbull . Grace Hill . Mackenna . Stephen . Porphyry . 1934 . Oxford University Press . New York . English . 1662948.
  8. Book: Turnbull . Grace Hill . Battle front as seen by a sculptor . Women's International League for Peace and Freedom . 1936 . Women's Internat. League . Washington . English . 44126115.
  9. Web site: Python of India – 1941 – Grace Hill Turnbull . 11 February 2017 . The MET .
  10. Web site: 2017 . Turnbull House [Pictures] ]. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170211160435/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/north-baltimore/ph-ms-turnbull-house-0411-pg-photogallery.html . 11 February 2017 . 11 February 2017 . Baltimore Sun .
  11. Web site: Summer 2019 . Notable Residents —the Arts and Letters . April 11, 2024 . GuilfordAssociation.org.
  12. Web site: Gunts . Edward . 1 November 2008 . From preservation to desperation . https://web.archive.org/web/20170211160621/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-11-01/news/0810310260_1_turnbull-historical-society-house . 11 February 2017 . 11 February 2017 . Baltimore Sun .