Rudy Henry Turk (1927—2007), was an American visual artist, art historian, curator, and museum director.[1][2] He served as the director emeritus and former curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona.[1][3] Turk was elected as an honorary fellow by the American Craft Council (ACC) in 1988.[4]
Rudy Henry Turk was born on June 24, 1927, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S.[5] He attended the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan (now University of Wisconsin–Green Bay; B.S. 1949, education);[6] the University of Tennessee (M.A. 1951, history);[6] and did postgraduate work at Indiana University in 1956.
Turk held a position from 1960 to 1965 as director of the Richmond Arts Center in Richmond, California,[7] before serving as director of the fine arts gallery in San Diego (now the San Diego Museum of Art).[3] He was the founding director and curator of the Arizona State University Art Museum (formerly the Matthews Center) in Tempe, Arizona, starting in 1967 and he retired in 1992.[8]
Turk's own artwork was in the mediums of painting, pottery, printmaking, and sculpture.[1] He took his first art class in the 1950s, and he found inspiration in early Christian art and catacomb paintings.[3]
He died on August 14, 2007, in Phoenix, Arizona.[9] He was survived by his wife Wanda Lee Turk (née Borders) and their four children.[9]
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