The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Turner, Charles Yardley

TURNER, Charles Yardley, American artist: b. Baltimore. Md., 25 Nov. 1850; d. New York, 31 Dec 1918. He studied in Paris with Laurens, Munkacsy and Bonnat. Was elected to the National Academy of Design; was member of the American Water Color Society, the American Etchers and the National Society of Mural Painters. Mr. Turner excelled as a mural painter. One of his pictures is in the courthouse at Baltimore and shows the burning of the steamboat Peggy Stewart. Other paintings are in New York galleries and elsewhere. Among his works familiar to many are the decorations in the rotunda of the Manhattan Hotel, New York. In the Metropolitan Museum is his ‘Bridal Procession’ and in the Union League Club, Chicago, is ‘John Alden's Letter.’ ‘A Dordrecht Milkmaid,’ in the Water Color Society exhibit in 1892, attracted much favorable attention, and then came perhaps the most noted of his canvases, ‘Days That Are No More,’ picturing a widow and a child on the stile of a churchyard. At the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition (1901) Mr. Turner was director of color; he was assistant director of decoration at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893. In 1912 he became director of the Maryland Institute Schools of Art and Design at Baltimore.