Western oil painting "Mountain Nocturne"
Elmer Page Turner
15541
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Details
- Age
- 1938
- Style
- Western art
- Artist
- Elmer Page Turner
- Origin
- Taos New Mexico
- Material
- Oil on board
- Condition
- Excellent
- Dimensions
- 14'' H x 12'' W
- Estimated Value
- $5,000.00
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Nocturne by Elmer Page Turner 1940 purchase from Robert, Parsons fine art gallery Taos New Mexico, circa 2020. Husband of Ila Mcafee. Deceloped neurological disorder after ww2, possibly MS or ALS
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Elmer Page Turner, born 1890 in Wyoming; studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Married I love McAfee. Excellent landscape artist in Taos, New Mexico; also worked in California. One contest painting made the cover of a major national news magazine. Became paralyzed with multiple sclerosis, likely related to poison gas during the war. Won first prize at the Arizona State Fair in 1932. Died in 1995.
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