Helen Maria Turner is best known as an American painter of portraits of people in their own homes and women in gardens. She was both an impressionist and a realist in the style of her paintings. Her... Read full biography
Helen Maria Turner is best known as an American painter of portraits of people in their own homes and women in gardens. She was both an impressionist and a realist in the style of her paintings. Her works incorporated pastels, oils, and watercolors applied to landscapes, portraits, and miniature... Read full biography
Helen Maria Turner is best known as an American painter of portraits of people in their own homes and women in gardens. She was both an impressionist and a realist in the style of her paintings. Her works incorporated pastels, oils, and watercolors applied to landscapes, portraits, and miniature portraits; most were accomplished without the use of preliminary sketches. Helen Turner was born in 1858 in Louisville, Kentucky, and lived with her family Alexandria, Louisiana. Much of her time was... Read full biography
Helen Maria Turner is best known as an American painter of portraits of people in their own homes and women in gardens. She was both an impressionist and a realist in the style of her paintings. Her works incorporated pastels, oils, and watercolors applied to landscapes, portraits, and miniature portraits; most were accomplished without the use of preliminary sketches. Helen Turner was born in 1858 in Louisville, Kentucky, and lived with her family Alexandria, Louisiana. Much of her time was spent in New Orleans where her family had prominence as well as in their own town. Her painting experience began at about age 22, and she painted portraits as well as bayou landscapes. She attended the New Orleans Art Union before becoming an... Read full biography
Helen Maria Turner is best known as an American painter of portraits of people in their own homes and women in gardens. She was both an impressionist and a realist in the style of her paintings. Her works incorporated pastels, oils, and watercolors applied to landscapes, portraits, and miniature portraits; most were accomplished without the use of preliminary sketches. Helen Turner was born in 1858 in Louisville, Kentucky, and lived with her family Alexandria, Louisiana. Much of her time was spent in New Orleans where her family had prominence as well as in their own town. Her painting experience began at about age 22, and she painted portraits as well as bayou landscapes. She attended the New Orleans Art Union before becoming an instructor in Dallas at an Episcopal school for girls from about 1893 to 1895. She then attended the Art Students League in New York in... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (47)
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Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018
Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South
2015
Pollack, Deborah C.
400 pages (color)
Helen M. Turner The Woman's Point of View (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Faquin, Jane Ward (Essay by Maia Jalenak)
82 pages (color)
Kentucky The Master Painters
2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
The Golden Age of American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Gerdts, William H (essay)
128 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
Dreaming over Woods and Hills Kentucky Artists in the Humphrys Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Jones, Arthur F
131 pages (color)
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
American Women Artists 1830-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tufts, Eleanor (others)
256 pages (color)
The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Carr, Carolyn K
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
American Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerdts, William H
336 pages (color)
Down Garden Paths The Floral Environment in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gerdts, William H
144 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
American Impressionism
1974
Boyle, Richard
238 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index