James Baare Turnbull Wpa Painting Black African American Antique MID Century

  

JAMES BAARE TURNBULL INK AND WASH SIGNED AND DATED 1939. CONDITION IS GOOD ART IS LOOSE FROM MATING BUT IN PLACE. TITLED THE COOK ON BACK. 23 5/8'' BY 19 5/8'' FRAMED. Louis, Missouri, James Barre Turnbull studied art at the St.

Louis School of Fine Arts, the Washington University School of Fine Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He exhibited widely from the mid-Thirties, both commercially Walker and A. Galleries in New York City and institutionally St. Louis Museum of Art and others. In 1938, Turnbull was appointed director of the WPA Arts Project in Missouri.

The artist executed WPA post office mural commissions in Fredericktown. During World War II, Turnbull served as an artist and war correspondent for. Primarily on the Pacific front.

In the early Forties, he moved from his native Missouri to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where he became associated with the Woodstock art colony.