Grace Turnbull, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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painter, sculptor and writer
Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1880
Date of Death: 26-Dec-1976
Profession: sculptor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Grace Turnbull
- Grace Hill Turnbull (December 30, 1880 – December 26, 1976) was an American painter, sculptor and writer. Born to a cultured family in Baltimore, Turnbull studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Students League of New York.
- She then turned her attention to sculpture, studying at the Rinehart School of the Maryland Institute and in Rome.
- In 1914 she received the Whitelaw Reid Prize in Paris, and she received the Anna Hyatt Huntington Prize in 1932 and 1944.
- Turnbull was notorious during her life for her commitment to abstinence in many fields – she objected strenuously to alcohol, and served only apple juice at her own gatherings – and her support for civil rights.
- She lived in Baltimore for much of her life, in a house and studio designed by her brother Bayard, and never married.
- Besides her artistic pursuits she wrote a number of books, including Tongues of Fire (1929), Essence of Plotinus (1934), Fruit of the Vine (1950), and the autobiography Chips from My Chisel (1953); she also wrote pamphlets and contributed articles to a variety of publications.Turnbull's 1941 sculpture Python of India is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while two of her public artworks, a memorial to Lizette Woodworth Reese and a statue of a naiad, remain in Baltimore.
- A collection of her papers is held at Syracuse University.
- Her house in the Guilford neighborhood, which she had willed along with a collection of artworks to the Maryland Historical Society, still stands.
- Her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1996.
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