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Color Study for Mural Decoration: "The Opening of The Erie Canal, 1825: Entering Mohawk Valley"
1905 · oil
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Charles Yardley Turner
1850
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9
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- Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
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- NgaTier 3 · Scraped/inferred85%
- Artsy (bulk)Tier 1 · Institutional85%
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Why this artist matters now
Charles Yardley "C. Y." Turner was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. His genre scenes and American historical paintings were popularized through engravings and book illustrations.
Source: Nga · Trust score: 85% · Updated 8d ago
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- Art Institute Chicago2 published2 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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- 1905 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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