AW694: Grace Hill Turnbull Modernist Fauvist "The Great Oak" Oil on Canvas

Grace Hill Turnbull (1880 - 1976) Modernist Fauvist "The Great Oak" Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Sight: 20" x 24"; 23 3/4" x 27 3/4"

Comments: Grace Hill Turnbull was born to a cultured family in Baltimore Maryland. She studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York. She later focused on  sculpture, studying at the Rinehart School of the Maryland Institute and in Rome. In 1914 she received the Whitelaw Reid Prize in Paris, and she received the Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize in 1932 and 1944.^[

Turnbull was notorious during her life for her commitment to abstinence in many fields – she objected strenuously to alcohol, and served only apple juice at her own gatherings – and her support for civil rights. She lived in Baltimore for much of her life in a house and studio.

Besides her artistic pursuits she wrote a number of books, including Tongues of Fire(1929) and Fruit of the Vine (1950).^[ Her autobiography Chips from My Chisel was published in 1953,^[and she also editor Essence of Plotinus (1934).^[ Turnbull also wrote pamphlets and contributed articles to a variety of publications.

Turnbull's 1941 sculpture, Python of India, is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art while two of her public artworks, a memorial to Lizette Woodworth Reese and a statue of a naiad, remain in Baltimore. A collection of her papers is held at Syracuse University Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1996.