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 23 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from Charles C. Cunningham to Evan H. Turner, 1971 March 31
Correspondence from Charles C. Cunningham, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, 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.
Memorandum from A. James Speyer to Charles C. Cunningham, 1971 April 2
Memorandum from A. James Speyer, Curator of 20th Century Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, to Charles C. Cunningham, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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