Charles Yardley "C. Y." Turner (November 25, 1850 – January 1, 1919) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. His

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and American historical paintings were popularized through engravings and book illustrations.

Biography

Turner was born in

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, the youngest son of lumber merchant John Comegys Turner (1816-1876) and Hanah Bartlett Turner (1817-1863). His parents were

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s, and he and his eight siblings attended the school of the Lombard Street Meeting House. He continued as a member of the Baltimore Monthly Meeting until his death. As a young man, he worked for Baltimore architect Frank M. Davis during the day,Charles Yardley Turner
from National Academy of Design. while studying drawing at the evening school of the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts at night.Rossiter Johnson and John Howard Brown, eds., "Charles Yardley Turner," ''The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Volume 10'' (Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904

/ref> He moved to New York City in 1872, where he worked as a colorist in a photographic studio during the day, and attended the

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evening school at night. He was one of the founders of the

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in 1875, and studied there for three years under

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.Alfred Trumble, "C. Y. Turner," ''The Collector: A Journal Devoted to the Arts and Crafts'', vol. 2, no. 11 (April 1, 1891), New York City, p. 12

/ref> He moved to Paris in 1878, where he studied under

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and

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Charles Yardley Turner, Het grote kanaal, Dordrecht, Holland

He returned to New York in 1881, taught at a summer art school on

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, and began teaching at the Art Students League in the fall. He made a notable debut at the National Academy of Design's 1882 annual exhibition, exhibiting two works—''The Grand Canal, Dordrecht'' (1881), that he had painted in the Netherlands, and ''The Days That Are No More'' (1882), that he had painted on Long Island. The latter depicted a young widow and small child leaving a country graveyard, and was inspired by a line from

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—"O death in life, the days that are no more." Turner painted three works based on the

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poem, ''

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''. Engravings of two of these were best-sellers, and produced royalties for the artist. His second painting in the series, ''Bridal Procession of John Alden and Priscilla'' (1886), was bought for the

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. Turner began teaching at the National Academy of Design in 1889. Among his NAD students were Zelma Baylos,

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, Mary Allison Doull,

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, Peter Béla Mayer,

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and Arthur William Woelfle. In 1912 he became director of his Baltimore alma mater, renamed the Maryland Institute School of Art and Design.Florence N. Levy, ed., "Who's Who in Art," ''American Art Annual, Volume 12'' (Washington, D.C., The American Federation of Arts, 1916), pp. 489-490.

Muralist

Turner painted his first murals in the early 1890s. His philosophy was that a mural should complement the architecture, not compete with it:

When we come to mural painting the picture should neither project from the wall nor make a hole in it. The object must not be smothered, and the original form lost. When the decoration becomes more prominent than the object decorated, it is bad decoration. Such treatment would be as false as making the figures in a carpet stand up so prominently as to cause us to experience a sense of striking against them as we walk.

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His mural ''The Triumph of Manhattan'' (1896) was a cycloramic view of

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, that encircled the Hotel Manhattan's rotunda. In the foreground, it featured Native Americans, European colonists, and historical figures such as

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, and

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, all paying their respects to the Greek-gowned "Empress Manhattan," who was surrounded by female attendants. Turner later painted a mural of Greek gods and goddesses for the hotel's lobby. One of Turner's most famous murals is ''The Burning of the "Peggy Stewart"'' (1903), painted for the Baltimore City Courthouse. It depicts an incident from 1774—often called the "Annapolis Tea Party"—when the American boycott against imported British tea was at its height. Loyalist merchant Anthony Stewart was awaiting the arrival of his ship ''Peggy Stewart'' at Annapolis. One of his business partners had tried to get around the boycott by loading more than a ton of tea aboard the ''Peggy Stewart'' in London, hidden in seventeen crates marked "Linen." The deception was supposedly discovered in mid-voyage, but when the ship arrived at Annapolis, the partner refused to pay the Crown tax on the tea. The ''Peggy Stewart'' was barred from docking at the city or unloading any of its cargo until the Crown tax was paid, so Stewart finally paid it himself. His action set off a riot outside his house, with a radical mob threatening to burn both Stewart's house and the ship. The mob's leaders forced Stewart into a devil's bargain, they would spare his house if he set fire to the ship himself. Turner's 5-panel mural features Stewart at far left, in shirt sleeves having just set the fire, and a tableau of life-size figures in the foreground, set against a background of flames. It is in height and in length. In 1905, the

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instituted a policy of commissioning permanent works of art for its school buildings. The first commission went to Turner—two large murals depicting the 1825 opening of the

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, for the

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at 10th Avenue & West 58th Street, Manhattan. The first mural, ''Entering the Mohawk Valley'', depicted Governor

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and other dignitaries aboard the first barge to transverse the canal from

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to the

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. The second, ''Marriage of the Waters'', depicted a famous ceremony in which Governor Clinton poured an urn of Lake Erie water into the Atlantic Ocean. Turner was paid $3,500, one half percent of the building's construction cost."A Time Capsule: Artworks in the School,"
''The New York Times'', May 12, 1996. The school relocated to The Bronx in 1929, and the murals were taken down and reinstalled in the library of the new building. ''General Washington at Fort Lee'' (1910) was an unusual choice of subject for a mural, since it depicted one of the

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's most humiliating defeats in the Revolutionary War. Fort Washington was located at the northern end of

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, on a bluff of high land along the

. Fort Lee was located on the opposite side of the Hudson, atop the Palisades, in New Jersey. The twin forts were about apart—separated by the width of the river—and both had been built in Summer 1776 to prevent British warships from sailing any further north up the Hudson. On the morning of November 16, 1776, the British Army executed a massive assault on Fort Washington, with some 8,000 soldiers attacking from the north, east and south. Meanwhile, bombarded the fort with cannon fire from the east, and prevented Washington from sending boats with reinforcements from New Jersey. The 3,000 Continentals garrisoned at the fort fought through most of the day, hoping that reinforcements would be able to cross the Hudson by night, but the British overwhelmed the garrison by mid-afternoon. The commander of the fort surrendered, and more than 2,800 Continentals were taken prisoner. Turner's mural depicts Washington (on horseback) and his staff monitoring the attack from the opposite side of the Hudson, but powerless to intervene. It was this defeat and Washington's subsequent retreat that inspired

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to pen ''

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'', and its famous opening sentence—"These are the times that try men's souls."

Colorist

Muralist

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was selected to be director of decoration for the 1893

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in Chicago, and Turner, who had been runner-up for the job, agreed to be his assistant. Eight years later, Turner was colorist for the entire 1901

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. The Chicago exposition had been nicknamed "The White City," because of the color of all but one of its major buildings. Turner described his ambitious color scheme for the Buffalo exposition:

It was for us to make the color of the exposition tell something, the same story as the sculpture. Accordingly, we have used bright, brilliant hues on the buildings that are suggestive of the early life of man. The horticultural building, for instance, has orange ornaments, with details in brilliant blue, green, yellow and rose. The government building is prevailingly in rich yellow. As one goes up the esplanade, the decorations become more sober. The music hall has a scheme of dull red; the machinery building in green-gray. The electric tower is given over to a harmony of green and gold on an ivory ground. Here the color-key of the whole exposition is struck. The lovely green of Niagara water, rich as the green on the peacock's wing, appears in its purity on the electric tower, to be echoed in every structure of the show-city. Not a building is there which is without its notes of Niagara-green.

Awards and honors

The National Academy of Design awarded Turner the 1884 Second

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(and $200 cash award) for ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'', the first of his "Longfellow" paintings. He exhibited ''The Days That Are No More'' at the 1886

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, and received an Honorable Mention. He exhibited ''The Days That Are No More'' at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and again received an Honorable Mention. He exhibited eleven oil paintings at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—including ''The Grand Canal, Dordrecht'', ''The Days That Are No More'', and ''The Courtship of Miles Standish''—and was awarded a Medal for Excellence.Department of Fine Arts, ''World's Columbian Exposition, Revised Catalogue, Department of Fine Arts, with Index of Exhibitors'' (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1893). The

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awarded Turner its 1912 Medal of Honor for Painting, for his mural ''General Washington at Fort Lee'', at the

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in Jersey City, New Jersey. The National Academy of Design elected Turner an Associate in 1883, and an Academician in 1886. He served as NAD's vice-president, 1903–1904.Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey, "Charles Yardley Turner, N.A.," ''The Peterson Magazine'' vol. 5, no. 4 (April 1895), pp. 337-341, 361-371. He was a member of the

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and the Society of American Etchers. He served as president the Art Students League of New York, 1884–1885 and 1900–1901. He was a founding member of the

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, and served as its president, 1904–1909. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, and served as its vice-president. Turner joined the

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in 1872, and served as its president, 1883–1889. He was a member of the

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for more than thirty years,"Charles Yardley Turner," ''The Century Association Year-book'' (New York: Century Association, 1919), pp. 18-20. and painted a group portrait of more than forty of its members—''A Saturday Evening at the Century'' (1894)—that included a cameo of himself.

Personal

Turner never married. He preferred to be called "C. Y.," because, he said, his initials "made a combination that really had more individuality than 'Charles Yardley'." He contracted

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, and died of pneumonia at Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, prior to dawn on January 1, 1919. Some sources list the year of his death as 1918, and others as 1919.

Selected works

Murals

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* Dining Room mural,

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house, 14 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, 1891-1896. * Hotel Manhattan, New York City, demolished 1961. ** ''The Triumph of Manhattan'', 1896. The 3-part mural encircled the hotel's Rotunda. ** ''The Gods of Greece'', 1898, Lobby ** ''The Four Seasons'', 1900-1901 ** ''The Days'', 1900-1901 * Astor Dining Room frieze and spandrels, Astoria Hotel, New York City, 1897, demolished 1929. * Ceiling mural, National Bank of Commerce, 31 Nassau Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1897, demolished 1966 * ''History of the Island of Martinique'', Hotel Martinque, 32nd Street and Broadway, New York City, 1898, 4 lunette murals *

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, Manhattan, New York City, 1899 ** ''Law'' ** ''Equity'' * "Sir Walter Raleigh" murals, Raleigh Hotel, Washington, D.C., demolished 1964. ** ''Sir Walter Raleigh's Home in England'', Lobby, 1899-1900 ** ''The Sailing of the Raleigh Expedition—1584'', Lobby, 1899-1900 ** ''The Destruction of the Spanish Fleet—1588'', Lobby, 1899-1900 ** Rathskeller mural: 9 panels, 1899-1900 * Baltimore Court House, Baltimore, Maryland ** ''Barter with the Indians for Land in Southern Maryland, 1634'', 1901-1902 ** ''The Burning of the "Peggy Stewart"'', 1903Burning of "The Peggy Stuart"
from SIRIS. * Interior decoration,

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, 65 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York City, 1903 * "Opening of the Erie Canal" murals,

, Manhattan, New York City, 1905 ** ''Entering the Mohawk Valley'', X ** ''Marriage of the Waters'', X **The school relocated from Manhattan to The Bronx in 1929. The murals were taken down and installed in the library of the new building. * Essex County Court House,

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murals. Church interio

** The building is now West Side Institutional Synagogue, and the murals are hidden above a

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. * Rotunda murals,

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, 1911 ** Three of Turner's preparatory sketches, portraits of Native Americans, were his 1919 bequest to Youngstown's

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. ** A fourth Turner preparatory sketch was a 1961 gift to the Institute. * Court of Appeals Court Room,

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, 1912 ** ''The Conclave of Pontiac and Rogers’ Rangers at the Cuyahoga River, November 1760'', X ** ''The Trial of Captain John Smith at Jamestown, June 10, 1607'', X * "History of Transportation in Wisconsin" murals, North Hearing Room,

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, 1917 ** ''Indians with Horses'' ** ''Trappers in Canoes'' ** ''Stage Coach'' ** ''Steam and Motor''

Paintings

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* ''The Grand Canal, Dordrecht'', 1881. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''The Days That Are No More'', 1882. Honorable Mention at the 1886 Paris Salon.''Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Mural "The Burning of the Peggy Stuart"'' (Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, 1905

/ref> Honorable Mention at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''The Courtship of Miles Standish'', 1883. Winner of the 1884 Hallgarten Prize from NAD. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''Bridal Procession of John Alden and Priscilla'', 1886. Deaccessioned from the

, 1956. * ''John Alden's Letter'', Union League Club of Chicago, Union League Club, Chicago, 1888. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''An Emblem of Mortality'', National Academy of Design Museum, Manhattan, New York City, 1888. * ''The Pride of the Farm'', 1890. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''Saw Wood and Say Nothing'', 1891. Exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. * ''A Dordrecht Milkmaid'', 1892. Exhibited at the American Water Color Society in 1892. * ''Modeling the First Staff Ornaments, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893'', 1894. Deaccessioned from the DeYoung Memorial Museum, 2010. * ''A Saturday Evening at the Century'',

, Manhattan, New York City, 1894. Depicts 40+ members of the Century Association (including a cameo of Turner) in conversation at the club. * ''Chrysanthemums'', 1907. Deaccessioned from

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* ''Moved by the Spirit: Margaretta Walton Preaching'', Stony Run Friends Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 1907.Ella Kent Barnard, "Charles Yardley Turner," ''Friends' Intelligencer'', vol. 76, no. 19 (May 10, 1919), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pp. 293, 29

/ref> * ''Portrait of Walter Shirlaw'', 1908.''The International Studio'', vol. 35, no. 137 (July 1908), p. xxxviii. Turner had studied under Shirlaw at the Art Students League of New York. * ''Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth'', 1912 File:Turner Alden's Letter Art of World vol.8.jpg, ''John Alden's Letter'' (1888), Union League Club of Chicago File:Turner Pride Art of World vol.5.jpg, ''The Pride of the Farm'' (1890) File:Turner Sawing Art of World vol.5.jpg, ''Saw Wood and Say Nothing'' (1891) File:Turner Modeling the First Staff Ornaments 1894.jpg, ''Modeling the First Staff Ornaments, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893'' (1894)

References

Sources

Obituary: Charles Yardley Turner
''American Art News'', Vol. 17, No. 13 (Jan. 4, 1919), p. 7. *Blashfield, Edwin Howland, ''Mural Painting in America: The Scammon Lectures, delivered before the Art Institute of Chicago, March 1912, and since greatly enlarged'', Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 191

Brief online biography
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Awards and honors

Personal

Selected works

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References

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