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 Anne d'Harnoncourt to Gérard Régnier, 1976 July 21
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Gérard Régnier, Musée national d'art moderne.
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt to Jim, 1974 February 15
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Jim.
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt to Maria Martins, 1969 April 28
Correspondence from Anne D'Harnoncourt to Maria Martins.
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt to Rosa Maria Malet, 1981 February 3
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Rosa Maria Malet, Acting Director of Fundació Joan Miró.
Correspondence from Anne d'Harnoncourt to Sigrid Byers, 1969 March 19
Correspondence from Anne D'Harnoncourt to Sigrid Byers.
Correspondence from between Evan H. Turner and Lloyd C. Minter, 1974 May
Correspondence between Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Lloyd C. Minter.
Correspondence from Caroline G. Griffith to John Russell, 1973 August 17
Correspondence from Caroline G. Griffith, Executive Secretary at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to John Russell, The Sunday Times.
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.