Turner, Evan H.

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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 456 Collections and/or Records:

The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin. "Art Museum Reports Loss of 2 Paintings", 1971 April 19

Object — Box: 1, Folder: 7

Identifier: MDE_B001_F007_004

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"Art Museum Reports Loss of 2 Paintings" by Adolph Katz. Clipping from The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin.

Dates: 1971 April 19

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / MDE, Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records / American Academy of Arts and Letters, [Duchamp Memorial Exhibition], 1970 / Clippings / Theft and recovery of Duchamp's paintings

Turner, Evan H., 1987-1991, undated

File — Box: 56, Folder: 22

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: The first major fundraising campaign d'Harnoncourt oversaw as director was the Landmark Renewal Fund, originally planned to run from 1986 to 1991. The goal of the campaign was to raise $50 million for endowment increases, building improvements and a bridge fund to support operations until the new endowments began generating income. Later in the campaign, the goal was increased another $10 million to fund a major overhaul of the Museum's European art collection. According to later press...

Dates: 1987-1991, undated

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / ADH, Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / Names and subjects / Names and subjects

Turner, Evan H., 2004

File — Box: 506, Folder: 13

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries currently is closed to researchers. File titles are subject to change when processing is finalized at a later date. Under d'Harnoncourt's direction, the museum continued to envision grander goals that would enhance the visitor's experience and allow the institution to better serve its diverse community. It seems only fitting that this last subseries should document the initiation of the most transforming project for the museum's iconic neo-classical "triumph on...

Dates: 2004

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / ADH, Anne d'Harnoncourt Records / Names and subjects / Names and subjects

Turner, Evan H. "The Earles' Galleries exhibition of 1896." [publication unidentified]. Photocopy, undated

File — Box: 21, Folder: 51

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Periodical writings about Thomas Eakins's life and work are the major elements of this subseries. In addition to Alan Burroughs's 1924 catalog for the Arts magazine, which Goodrich often referenced in his research of Eakins, there are several writings each by noted Eakins scholars, Gordon Hendricks and William Inness Homer. Another contributing writer to this subseries is a student of Eakins, Charles Bregler, who later compiled a major collection of his teacher's works....

Dates: undated

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / LEG, Lloyd and Edith Havens Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art, Record of Works by Thomas Eakins / Reference / Articles

Unidentified publication. "Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center", circa 1976-1977

Object — Box: 22, Folder: 27

Identifier: MDE_B022_F027_017

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Unidentified publication. "Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center" [copy].

Dates: circa 1976-1977

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / MDE, Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records / Musee National d'Art Moderne (France), "Marcel Duchamp," 1977 / Clippings / Beaubourg Duchamp retrospective. 2 of 2

Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center, 1977

Object — Box: 22, Folder: 24

Identifier: MDE_B022_F024_001

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Press release from the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled "Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center."

Dates: 1977

Found in: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives / MDE, Marcel Duchamp Exhibition Records / Musee National d'Art Moderne (France), "Marcel Duchamp," 1977 / Ephemera / Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Works by Duchamp on loan...." Press release

Turner, Evan H.

Biography

Found in 456 Collections and/or Records:

The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin. "Art Museum Reports Loss of 2 Paintings", 1971 April 19

Turner, Evan H., 1987-1991, undated

Turner, Evan H., 2004

Turner, Evan H. "The Earles' Galleries exhibition of 1896." [publication unidentified]. Photocopy, undated

Unidentified publication. "Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center", circa 1976-1977

Works by Duchamp on Loan to New Paris Cultural Center, 1977

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