Property of a Private Collector, Savannah, GA

Description:

Charles Yardley Turner (MD/NY,1850-1919), Mending the Wedding Dress, 1889, Oil on Canvas, signed and dated 1889 lower right, depicting a woman mending a white dress with younger woman standing before her, with Christies labels on verso, with thin linen mat and giltwood frame. Frame size: 30 1/4 in. x 26 1/2 in.

Charles Yardley Turner was born in Baltimore and studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 1870. He then went to New York City and enrolled at the National Academy of Design from 1872 to 1875, and in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens, Baron Mihaly Munkacsy and Leon Bonnat. He returned to New York in 1882 and exhibited regularly at the National Academy, where he was voted to Associate membership in 1893. Three years later he was made a full Academician. He became interested in mural painting while he was Assistant Director of decorations for the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. He painted genre scenes in which the human figure was the focus of the painting. He was especially noted for large mural decorations on public buildings, hotels and theaters. Often his subjects were historical, depicting Puritans, Revolutionary War scenes and Indians. His murals can be found in numerous public and government buildings throughout the mid-western and eastern United States including the Library of Congress, and the capitol building of Wisconsin. (Invaluable)

Measurements: Height: by sight 23 1/2 in. x Width: 19 1/2 in.

Condition:

Good restored condition, relined, white mark in left edge above vase of flowers, faint marks in center in chest between the two figures, and to right of standing girls hip, small spots of inpainting in left of top edge, in white dress, background in lower left quadrant, and in woman's bonnet, wear to edges of frame.

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