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BIOGRAPHY James Alfred Turner - Page 3 of 4
Turner was an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists' Society, the
Australian Art Association, the Victorian Academy of Arts, the Yarra
Sculptors' Society, the Melbourne Art Club and New Melbourne Art
Club.
The State Library of Victoria artists biography index lists exhibitions
in which he showed and brief details of the various works.A
summary of the index is ....
Exhibited Yarra Sculptors Society - 1898, 1901-02, 1902, 1906, 1908
Exhibited Victorian Artists Society - March.October.November 1890
Exhibited Victorian Academy of Arts - 1884-85, 1887
Exhibited New Melbourne Art Club 1894
Exhibited Melbourne Art Club 1897
POSTCARDS
The first of his paintings to be reproduced on postcards was
published in Melbourne about 1904. It proved popular and forty-six
of his rural and bush-life works were issued in colour. No other
colonial painter's work was published in such volume and Turner
postcards are still sought by collectors. 45 of the 46 known postcard
scenes are illustrated in the Picture Gallery - PostCard section.
Select Bibliography
Table Talk, 21 Nov 1901; Argus (Melbourne), 8 May 1890, 16 Apr 1908;
Australian Financial Review, 15 Nov 1973.
Shirley C. Jones. 'Turner, James Alfred (1850 - 1908)', Australian
Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990,
p. 296.
Shirley C. Jones , 'JA Turner: an elusive colonial painter' This Australia
(Winter 1988 p 86-88). She outlines her research into Turner and in
particular his artwork appearing on postcards.
This Australia is held by both the State Library of Queensland
(http://srlopac.slq.qld.gov.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=520...etc ) &
State Library of NSW (http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1153682 ).
Shirley C. Jones Monograph - A Quiet Painter 2009 - see resources
page
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