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Turner was a prolific artist who served as a professor of art at the University of Virginia and Dartmouth College. He earned his BFA from the Virginia Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) and his MFA from New York University. After a brief period of teaching medieval architecture at Dartmouth, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Virginia in 1952 where he taught printmaking, watercolors, sculpture, art history and photography. He taught there for 33 years until his retirement in 1985. By the end of his life, Turner had become a fixture in Charlottesville. He had a studio in the popular Belmont neighborhood, and painted scenes from his surrounding community.
Highly expressive and typically colorful, Turner’s paintings ranged from soft impressionistic seascapes to impasto abstracts. He utilized an impressive variety of mediums including watercolor, acrylic, block print, found object, and oil. Turner utilized color in unique and untraditional ways that served to enhance some of his more unexpected subject matter. His oeuvre includes a vast variety of subject matter including landscapes, seascapes, nudes, colorful abstracts, portraits, and urban scenes. The frantic and heavy brushstrokes as well as, in his later work, the bawdy words he chose to include in his paintings seem to show us a glimpse of the artist’s personality.
His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions which included: Virginia Museum; Chrysler Museum; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts; Montgomery Museum; Babcock Gallery, New York; New York University; William and Mary College; Brooklyn Museum; Philadelphia Print Club; Peridot Gallery, New York; Dyansen Gallery, New York; and University of Virginia. In 2013 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts organized a traveling exhibition of Turner's work entitled Virginia Vistas.
Ted once said, "Some people say artists paint for a lack of something vital in their lives. I paint because I am happiest when I am painting. I can’t think of anything else to do that is nearly as interesting. That is really what it’s all about."
Turner was a prolific artist who served as a professor of art at the University of Virginia and Dartmouth College. He earned his BFA from the Virginia Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) and his MFA from New York University. After a brief period of teaching medieval architecture at Dartmouth, he accepted a teaching position at the University of Virginia in 1952 where he taught printmaking, watercolors, sculpture, art history and photography. He taught there for 33 years until his retirement in 1985. By the end of his life, Turner had become a fixture in Charlottesville. He had a studio in the popular Belmont neighborhood, and painted scenes from his surrounding community.
Highly expressive and typically colorful, Turner’s paintings ranged from soft impressionistic seascapes to impasto abstracts. He utilized an impressive variety of mediums including watercolor, acrylic, block print, found object, and oil. Turner utilized color in unique and untraditional ways that served to enhance some of his more unexpected subject matter. His oeuvre includes a vast variety of subject matter including landscapes, seascapes, nudes, colorful abstracts, portraits, and urban scenes. The frantic and heavy brushstrokes as well as, in his later work, the bawdy words he chose to include in his paintings seem to show us a glimpse of the artist’s personality.
His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions which included: Virginia Museum; Chrysler Museum; Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts; Montgomery Museum; Babcock Gallery, New York; New York University; William and Mary College; Brooklyn Museum; Philadelphia Print Club; Peridot Gallery, New York; Dyansen Gallery, New York; and University of Virginia. In 2013 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts organized a traveling exhibition of Turner's work entitled Virginia Vistas.
Ted once said, "Some people say artists paint for a lack of something vital in their lives. I paint because I am happiest when I am painting. I can’t think of anything else to do that is nearly as interesting. That is really what it’s all about."
