Museums & Galleries
Recent Exhibitions
Robert Chapman Turner: Artist, Teacher, Explorer
May 31 - September 7, 2024, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
February 22 - August 29, 2021, The Met Fifth Avenue
Materiality: Masterworks from The Miller Ceramic Art Collection
September 26 - December 29, 2019, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University
Kilns of Alfred: Transactions with Fire
February 21 - July 28, 2019, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University
Permanent Collections
Museums and galleries with Turner pots in their permanent collections. (Know of a museum or gallery that should be on this list? Contact us!)
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University
Asheville Art Museum
Black Mountain College Collection
Black Mountain College Museum
Currier Museum of Art
Everson Museum of Art
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
The Met Fifth Avenue
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Asymmetrical Platter, mid 20th century
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
Background images: (Top) Robert Turner in his Alfred studio, 1997/ John Wood, photographer. (Right) Robert Chapman Turner, ca. 1965 / unidentified photographer.
Source: Robert Chapman Turner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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