ARTIST: Charles Yardley Turner (Maryland, New York, 1850 - 1919)
NAME: Reading
YEAR: 1907
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Few minor paint losses. Some craquelure. Some small scattered inpaintings.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 30 x 26 inches / 76 x 66 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Charles Yardley Turner decided early on, as an art student in the 1870s, to sign his work C.Y. Turner, as stated in his interview with the Baltimore Sun newspaper in 1912. Subsequently he always signed his works C. Y. Turner to the point that he was known as Cy Turner instead of Charles Yardley Turner. He generally signed with all capital letters.He painted genre scenes in which the human figure was the focus of the painting. He was especially noted for large mural decorations on public buildings, hotels and theaters. Often his subjects were historical, depicting Puritans, Revolutionary War scenes and Indians.Turner was born in Baltimore and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 1870. He then went to New York City and enrolled at the National Academy of Design from 1872 to 1875, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens, Baron Mihaly Munkacsy and Leon Bonnat.He returned to New York in 1882 and exhibited regularly at the National Academy, where he was voted to Associate membership in 1893. Three years later he was made a full Academician. He became interested in mural painting while he was Assistant Director of decorations for the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. His murals can be found in numerous public and government buildings throughout the mid-western and eastern United States including the Library of Congress, and the capitol building of Wisconsin. Turner executed many easel paintings during his career and also did drop curtains for theaters and hotel decorations.He maintained studios in both New York and Baltimore.