Winthrop Turney

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Winthrop Duthie Turney
(American, 1884-1965)

Still life with Martini Bottle and Glasses, 1935

Signed lower right "Winthrop Turney"; inscribed verso 'Painted by Winthrop Turney/ 211 Greene Ave./ Brooklyn, NY/1935. New York State Chapter American Artist Professional League/15 Grammercy Park, New York, NY/Winthrop Turney/211 Greene Ave./Brooklyn 38/New York/ Interior/watercolor/$200/Agent: Broadway Express Company, 526 West Broadway/New York.'

Watercolor on paper
17 x 14 in (43.2 x 35.6 cm)

	Provenance: Estate of the Artist

	Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1884, Turney studied at the Art Students League under John Henry Twachtman, George De Forrest Brush, Frank DuMond and Louis Loeb. He was a member of the Fifteen Gallery Group, Allied Artists of America, and the Brooklyn Society of Modern Artists. Turney exhibited widely, including the Allied Artists of America, which awarded him a prize in 1944, as well as the Newark Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He was a muralist for the WPA (for example murals in the New York County Courthouse, Manhattan) and later specialized in watercolor. He was noted for his Brooklyn themes – backyards, Gowanus Canal, waterfront scenes, portraits on the subway and streets of Brooklyn – his quarries scenes of Gloucester, Mass., and for flowers, rocks, bottles, and shrubs that he did in Mountainville, New York. His primary focus was watercolor, and his bright, poster-like palette enlivened numerous close-ups of his still lifes of glass bottles, such as our work. He was married to the artist, Agnes Richmond (1870-1964).