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 340 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence from Bernard Karpel to Evan H. Turner, 1973 September 26
Correspondence from Bernard Karpel to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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 Blanchette Rockefeller to George Cheston, 1973 September 21
Correspondence from Blanchette Rockefeller to George Cheston, President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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 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 Cleve Gray to Evan H. Turner, 1969 February 15
Correspondence from Cleve Gray, Art in America, to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Correspondence from Cleve Gray to Evan H. Turner, 1969 February 15
Correspondence from Cleve Gray to Evan H. Turner.
Correspondence from Cynthia Jaffee McCabe to Evan H. Turner, 1973 August 22
Correspondence from Cynthia Jaffee McCabe, Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to Evan H. Turner, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Correspondence from Donald Mason to Evan H. Turner, 1971 December 28
Correspondence from Donald Mason, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 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.
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