Photographs and a catalog of Lenard Kester
name: label: Creator
content: Turney, Catherine
label: Names
content: Ankrum, Joan
label: Names
content: Brown, Gilmor, 1886 or 7-1960
label: Names
content: Kester, Lenard, 1917-
label: Names
content: Langton, Paul, 1913-
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1996 by Catherine Turney.
creator: label: Creator
content: Turney, Catherine
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Author and screenwriter, Catherine Turney (1906-1998), whose credits include co-authorship of the screenplay for James Cains's novel, Mildred Pierce and author of Byron's Daughter: A Biography of Elizabeth Medora Leigh, was for many years a companion of painter Lenard Kester. Turney was among the first women screenwriters to break into the Hollywood studio system. She was also associated with the California scene painters who had gravitated to the Chouinard Art Insititue in the late 1920s and 1930s. An active researcher, writer, and reader at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. Turney died September 9, 1998 in Sierra Madre, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1958]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.turncath
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of two black and white photographs of artist, Lenard Kester, actor and director Gilmor Brown (founder of the Pasadena Playhouse), and gallery owner, Joan Ankrum, taken during a party at the home of actor Paul Langton in the late 1950s. Also included is a 1958 catalog of Kester's show at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum of Art in Pasadena).