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 186 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Stephen Sacklarian, 1973 November 19
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Stephen Sacklarian.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Thomas M. Messer, 1970 October 5
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to Thomas M. Messer, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Walter Hopps, 1969 July 14
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Walter Hopps, Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Walter Hopps, 1969 March 24
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Walter Hopps, Director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley, 1969 February 5
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley, 1969 January 20
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley, 1969 June 25
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley, 1969 July 1
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley, 1969
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Copley.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to William Lieberman, 1971 March 11
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to William Lieberman, Museum of Modern Art.