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Grace Hill Turnbull Art

American, 1880-1976

Grace Hill Turnbull was born in 1880 in Baltimore, Maryland. As times and the climate of the art world changed, her work in painting varied from traditional portraits to modernist figures in landscapes. In 1914 in Paris, France, she was awarded the Whitelaw Reid First Prize. She exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors in New York City, including their 45th and 50th shows in 1936 and 1942. Her first experience as a sculptress was at age 13 when she and her brother Bayard built a miniature white marble church at the family's summer home. She was considered very avant-garde when she started painting around the beginning of the 20th-century, first portraits and then landscapes and flowers. In 1928, she moved into her house in Guilford, designed by her brother Bayard, and concentrated on creating sculptural work. Turnbull worked as a sculptor into advanced age and she also authored several books. She died in Baltimore in 1976.

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Artist: Grace Hill Turnbull
"Laughing Waters" Grace Hill Turnbull, Modernist, Flowing, Dynamic Waterfall
By Grace Hill Turnbull
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Grace Hill Turnbull Laughing Waters, 1925 Signed lower right, titled on verso Oil on canvas 26 x 37 inches Provenance The artist Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, Maryland...
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1920s American Modern Grace Hill Turnbull Art

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"Laughing Waters" Grace Hill Turnbull, Modernist, Flowing, Dynamic Waterfall
"Laughing Waters" Grace Hill Turnbull, Modernist, Flowing, Dynamic Waterfall

Grace Hill Turnbull
"Laughing Waters" Grace Hill Turnbull, Modernist, Flowing, Dynamic Waterfall, 1925

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"Hidden Boulders" Grace Hill Turnbull, American Female Modernist, Waterfall
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Grace Hill Turnbull Laughing Waters, 1925 Signed lower right, titled on verso Oil on canvas 26 x 37 inches Provenance The artist Catonsville Community College, Catonsville, Maryland...
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"Hidden Boulders" Grace Hill Turnbull, American Female Modernist, Waterfall
"Hidden Boulders" Grace Hill Turnbull, American Female Modernist, Waterfall

Grace Hill Turnbull
"Hidden Boulders" Grace Hill Turnbull, American Female Modernist, Waterfall, 1925

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