Charles Henry Turner Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Turner, Charles Henry, 1848-1908
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content: Charles Henry Turner papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Box 1, OV 2, MGP 1-2)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1875-circa 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.turnchar, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Glass plate negatives have been digitized.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection includes an annotated auction catalog and a price list of Turner's paintings sold at auction in 1910. Biographical material consists of biographical notes on Turner created by Turner's granddaughter, as well as a death notice and an obituary for Turner. Correspondence comprises four letters to Turner, primarily regarding portrait commissions, and an illustrated letter from Turner to his granddaughter.  

Artwork by Turner includes six oils including a self-portrait, two etchings and eighteen etching plates, five watercolors created for the annual costume ball of the Boston Arts Club, two watercolors of Turner's studio, a sketchbook with four watercolors, and a portrait on wood "after David Neal." Also found are three silk etchings by Edmond H. Garrett.

Printed material includes Turner's signed copy of The Art of Painting and Drawing in Colored Crayons by Henry Murray.

Photographs include two portraits of Turner and photographs of Turner's wife, Elsie, including two cyanotypes; images of the exterior and interior of Turner's Jackson studio; a photograph album and loose photographs of Boston and Germany, where Elsie Turner was born; two photographs of Adolphe Lesrel's Paris studio; a photograph of O. A. Taft; and a folder of photographs of Turner's artwork. 

Two glass plate negatives are images of artwork.