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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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.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 February 28
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 July 14
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 October 1
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 January 20
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp about Copley Foundation gift of Étant donnés to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp, 1969 January 20
Correspondence from Evan H. Turner to Alexina Duchamp about Copley Foundation gift of Étant donnés to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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