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Across painting and sculpture, Scottish artist William Turnbull (1922–2012) explored the transhistorical power of elemental forms. Origins (1946–1959) surveys the transformative first period of the artist’s oeuvre. Confronting a crisis of meaning in the wake of World War II, Turnbull foregrounded art’s role as part of the physical world, a connective tissue between the prehistoric past and the present. Bookended by his time in Surrealist Paris and Abstract Expressionist New York, these years were punctuated by his inclusion in some of the most important exhibitions in modern British art. All the while, Turnbull iterated on his key motifs—the horse, the standing figure, and the human head among them—in an eternal return that nonetheless propelled him forward. “Each new excavation,” he wrote in 1956, “is another step into the future.”
Born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1922, Turnbull left school at fifteen and soon after began working as an illustrator to help support his family. While a pilot…
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Across painting and sculpture, Scottish artist William Turnbull (1922–2012) explored the transhistorical power of elemental forms. Origins (1946–1959) surveys the transformative first period of the artist’s oeuvre. Confronting a crisis of meaning in the wake of World War II, Turnbull foregrounded art’s role as part of the physical world, a connective tissue between the prehistoric past and the present. Bookended by his time in Surrealist Paris and Abstract Expressionist New York, these years were punctuated by his inclusion in some of the most important exhibitions in modern British art. All the while, Turnbull iterated on his key motifs—the horse, the standing figure, and the human head among them—in an eternal return that nonetheless propelled him forward. “Each new excavation,” he wrote in 1956, “is another step into the future.”
Born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1922, Turnbull left school at fifteen and soon after began working as an illustrator to help support his family. While a pilot…
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