Turner, Evan H.
Biography
Evan H. Turner (born 1927), an art historian and scholar, was the Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) from 1964 to 1978, leading the Museum through a period of significant growth and transformation. He created new art departments for American and 20th Century Art, and the innovative Department of Urban Outreach (DUO) to promote art across the City of Philadelphia. These progressive activities were matched by a groundbreaking exhibition in 1973, the Marcel Duchamp retrospective, which drew upon significant scholarship and assembled virtually the entire oeuvre of one of the most important artists represented in the Museum. In 1975, Turner led the Museum in a major construction project to install a new climate control system in the building, and in 1976, he helped plan the United States’ Bicentennial and the PMA’s Centennial celebrations. Turner was an active member of a number of professional organizations, as well as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Found in 456 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from Cleve Gray to Evan H. Turner, 1969 February 15
Correspondence from Cleve Gray to Evan H. Turner.
Correspondence from Cynthia Jaffee McCabe to Evan H. Turner, 1973 August 22
Correspondence from Cynthia Jaffee McCabe, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Correspondence from Donald Mason to Evan H. Turner, 1971 December 28
Correspondence from Donald Mason, Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Correspondence from E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr. to Evan H. Turner and Richard E. Oldenburg, 1973 February 23
Correspondence from E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Richard E. Oldenburg, Director of the Museum of Modern Art.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner and Alexina Duchamp to Arturo Schwarz, 1969 March 20-24
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner and Alexina Duchamp to Arturo Schwarz.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner and Richard E. Oldenburg to E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., 1972 November 6
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Richard E. Oldenburg, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, to E. Laurence Chalmers, Jr., Director of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 June 27
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 June 26
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 July 8
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 July 7
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
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