Arthur Turner (American)

Timeline

Born in Houston, Texas, 1940
Currently lives and works in Houston
Education
M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1966
B.A., North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, 1962
Awards
First Award, Clear Lake Arts Alliance Exhibition, Houston, Texas, 2000
Travel grant from Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1992
Selected for Outstanding Educator of America Awards Program, 1973
First Award, Corpus Christi Art Founation Annual Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1973
First Purchase Award, Beaumont Art Museum, 20th Annual Exhibition, 1971
Purchase Prize, 22nd Annual Texas Watercolor Society Exhibition, San Antonio , TX, 1971

Exhibitions

2007
“The Book”, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas
2007
“Looking Back”, Retrospective Exhibition,” Jung Center, Houston, Texas (solo)
2006
“Flight”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2006
“Artist’s Eye”, The Jung Center, Houston, TX, curated by Arthur Turner
2006
“Collectors X 3”, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
2005
“Rocky Mountain National Watermedia”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
2005
“The Natural World”, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
2004
“Texas Expanses”, Travis Tower Lobby, Houston, Texas
2004
“Indigo Variations”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2004
“The Landscape as a Point of Reference”, College of the Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City, Texas (solo)
2003
“Arthur Turner and Ellen Hart”, South Shore Harbor Resort, League City, Texas
2003
“Überblick 2003”, Malakademie Schloss Goldegg, Goldegg, Austria
2002
“5x7”, Texas Fine Arts Association, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2002
“Project Phoenix”, Red Bud Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002
“Spirit of the Planet”, The Art in Embassies Program, Vienna, Austria, organized for the residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (solo)
2002
“Watercolors”, Lew Allen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico (solo)
2002
“Forces of Nature”, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas (solo)
2001
“Reserved Light”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas (solo)
2001
“Nightscapes and Other Stories”, The Jung Center, Houston, Texas (solo)
2001
“Windows of Light”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2001
“The Box”, Hooks Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
2000
“25 Years”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000
“Watercolor USA”, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
1999–2000
“Selections from ‘Symbols of Change’”, Warwick Hotel, Houston, Texas (solo)
1999
“Symbols of Change”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
1999
“Earth, Fire & Water”, Brazosport Art Center, Lake Jackson, Texas (solo)
1999
“Arthur Turner”, Cerling Etching Studio, Houston, Texas (solo)
1999
“Watercolorists”, Cloister Gallery, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas; curated by Arthur Turner
1998
“House of 3-D”, The Glassel School of Art Auction, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1996
“Pecos River Series”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)