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.
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Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1975 February 11
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1975 June 27
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1975 November 10
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1976 January 5
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1977 February 7
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1976 February 17
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, 1976 August 22
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator for 20th Century Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt and Michael Botwinick, circa 1973-1974
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of 20th Century Art for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Michael Botwinick, Assistant Director for Art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt and Michael Botwinick, 1973 July 3
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt and Michael Botwinick.
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Michael Botwinick, and George Marcus, 1972 November 22
Memorandum from Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to Anne d'Harnoncourt, Curator of 20th Century Art for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Michael Botwinick, Assistant Director for Art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and George Marcus, Editor of Publications for the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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