Birth Date: | 13 March 1903 |
Birth Place: | London, England |
Death Date: | 1983 |
Death Place: | England |
Nationality: | British |
Field: | Sculpture |
Winifred Turner (1903-1983) was an English sculptor.[1]
Turner was born in London, the daughter of the sculptor Alfred Turner.[2] She studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London between 1921 and 1924, and then at Royal Academy Schools until 1929. She was elected a Fellow and Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1930 and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1924 and 1962.[3] Turner taught at the Central School of Art in the 1930s and early 1940s.[2] In 1988, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford held a joint exhibition of works by Turner and her father, Alfred.[4] Her 1934 bronze sculpture, Crouching Youth is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[4] The National Museum Cardiff also holds two works by Turner.[5] The Yale Center for British Art holds Turner's sculpture Eve (1932).[6]