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November 15, 2006
Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator, The Phillips Collection, 11-17-06
One of the country’s paramount anthologies of modern art will be on view at The Phillips Collection from Oct. 14, 2006 to Jan. 21, 2007. The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, represents a diverse cross section of art from the 1910s to 1950s, including now widely acknowledged masterpieces by artists like Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian, alongside key Dada works that have not been seen for decades. The exhibition also will include works by Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, and many other visionaries that forever altered the way America looks at the world.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator of The Phillips Collection, is a specialist in early twentieth century modern art. Dr. Turner’s Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia (1985). Before joining The Phillips Collection she worked for the National Museum of American Art and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has been at The Phillips Collection since 1989, where she has directed a series of traveling exhibitions derived from the permanent collection that address the earliest chapters of the Phillips’s collecting history, including Men of Rebellion: The Eight and their Associates at The Phillips Collection (author, 1990), Duncan Phillips Collects: Paris between the Wars (author, 1991); Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (co-author, 1992); Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series (editor, 1993; also includes video and children’s book); and In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O’Keeffe, and Stieglitz (author, 1995).
During her tenure at The Phillips Dr. Turner also has curated and directed significant large loan exhibitions, including Americans in Paris: Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder (principle author, 1996); Arthur Dove: A Retrospective (co-author, 1997), and Georgia O’Keeffe: The Poetry of Things (co-author, 1999). She contributed an essay on “Bonnard, Matisse, and the School of Paris” to the definitive text on The Phillips Collection and Duncan Phillips entitled The Eye of Duncan Phillips: A Collection in the Making, and was co-curator for the 1999 exhibition Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips.
Dr. Turner contributed an essay to the Jacob Lawrence catalogue raisonné entitled Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (2000) and, on the occasion of its publication she curated the nationally touring show of the same title, which opened at The Phillips Collection in 2001. She was also the curator of Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late (2002), a show co-organized by The Phillips with the Denver Art Museum that includes examples of all the media in which this artist worked. Dr. Turner was the project director and co-curator for Calder, Miró: A New Space for the Imagination, which opened in May 2004 and was co-organized by the Phillips Collection with the Foundation Beyeler in Basel (Switzerland). Dr. Turner’s current projects include co-editing with Dr. Josef Helfenstein the exhibition catalogue for Klee and America.
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