Flower Girl

1920

Helen M. Turner American, 1858-1958

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About the Artwork

Title Flower Girl

Artwork Date 1920

Artist Helen M. Turner

Life Dates 1858-1958

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 44 × 34 inches (111.8 × 86.4 cm) Framed: 50 × 40 × 2 5/8 inches (127 × 101.6 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of the National Academy of Design, Henry Ward Ranger Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 21.81

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower right: Helen M. Turner | N.Y. 1920

Inscriptions Inscribed, lower right: Helen M. Turner | N.Y. 1920

Provenance

the artist.
1921-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Ninth Annual Spring Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. Exh. cat., National Academy of Design. New York, 1921, no. 209 (ill.) [Note: Turner won the Altman prize at this show].

"Exhibition of the National Academy of Design." The American Magazine of Art 12, no. 5 (May 1921): pp. 160-165 (ill.).

“Academy of Design Announces Awards.” New York Times (March 3, 1921): p. 32.

“Some of the Prize-Winning Exhibits at the Show of the National Academy of Design.” New York Evening Post, March 5, 1921, graphic sec., p. 3 (ill.).

“Notable Exhibit Opened by Academy of Design.” New York Tribune, March 5, 1921, p. 9.

“Annual Academy Display.” American Art News 19 (March 5, 1921): p. 4.

“Academy of Design Exhibition to Open to Public To-day.” New York Herald, March 5, 1921, p. 11.

“From Brush and Chisel: Some Prize-Winning Objets d’Art from the Winter and Spring Exhibitions of the National Academy of Design.” New York Times, March 6, 1921, sec. 5, p. 3 (ill.).

Burroughs, Clyde H. “Gift from the Ranger Fund.” Bulletin of the DIA 3, no. 1 (October 1921): p. 1; pp. 6-7 (ill.).

“Exhibitions.” Bulletin of the National Arts Club (February 1927). Archives of American Art, National Arts Club Papers, reel 4265.

Hackler, Hortense. “Work of Helen M. Turner Now on Display in Highland Park.” Dallas Times Herald (January 2, 1927): sec. 5, p. 8 (ill.).

Turner, Helen Maria, Lewis Hoyer Rabbage, and Maureen Radl. Helen M. Turner, NA (1858-1958): A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Cragsmoor Free Library. New York, 1983, p. 22, no. 32 (ill.).

Color and Light: American Impressionist Paintings and Prints from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, 1984, pp. 16-17, no. 13.

Burdan, Amanda C. America's Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution. Exh. cat., Brandywine River Museum of Art. New Haven, 2020, p. 181, no. 53 (ill.).

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