Elizabeth Hutton TurnerElizabeth 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 was a Smithsonian Fellow and later worked for the National Museum of American Art (where she was a scholarly consultant for Perpetual Motif, the 1989 Man Ray Retrospective) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has been at The Phillips Collection since 1989 where she has directed more than twenty-five projects including 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 she 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 (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- project director and co-curator for the accompanying exhibition Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips (1999). 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 the curator and project director and author of Pierre Bonnard: Early and Late (2002), a show co-organized by The Phillips with the Denver Art Museum. Dr. Turner was the project director for Calder/Miró (2004) an exhibition co-organized by the Phillips Collection with the Foundation Beyeler in Basel (Switzerland). Dr. Turner was co-editor and an essayist for the catalogue of Paul Klee and America, a touring exhibition which was organized by the Menil, and installed by Dr. Turner at The Phillips Collection in 2006. Dr. Turner has also contributed to a number of scholarly publications including an essay on the jeune fille americaine for Women in Dada (1998) and an essay on Calder’s Animal Sketching for When We Were Young (2006). Dr. Turner currently serves on a number of advisory boards including, the Calder Foundation, the Archives of American Art, Howard University College of Arts and Sciences, and City Collegiate Public Charter School. Dr. Turner currently is working on a biography of Alexander Calder and will be assuming the position of tenured professor at the University of Virginia this fall. Her complete c.v. can be found here.
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