Reginald Turvey, Life and Art: Annals, Letters, and RecollectionsG. Ronald, 1986 - 121 頁 'Spiritual father of the Bahá'ís of South Africa.' That was the way Shoghi Effendi immortalized Reginald Turvey. 'I would place Reg Turvey as good as anyone who had painted landscapes since Constable'. That was the judgment of Bernard Leach, world-famous potter, Bahá'í and lifelong friend of Turvey. Two descriptions introducing two puzzles - the South African 'spiritual father' was a white man; and his work was almost unknown in his lifetime. In this lovingly compiled book, Lowell Johnson sets Turvey in front of the reader, and in so doing exposes his real success and achievement in life and art. The book includes several different accounts of him as man, artist and Bahá'í, with extracts from his diary and his correspondence with Bernard Leach. There are also 48 illustrations of his art, including 16 in colour. At the time of his death in 1968 his artistic achievement was largely unrecognized. But he is now widely regarded in South Africa as one of their leading twentieth century artists, with his works represented in ten major museums, as well as in private collections in many other countries. But Reginald Turvey's attainment was even more. He found in the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh an appreciation of man and nature in their universality, as expressions of the divine, which enriched his art and his own personality. Introduced to the Faith by his fellow artist Mark Tobey, he became for the Bahá'ís of South Africa their 'spiritual father' and for many others an example of modesty, patience, consideration and humour - one 'who only gave joy and never hurt a soul.' Lowell Johnson, friend of Reginald Turvey during the last decade of his life, has done more than any other to preserve his work and make it known to a wider public. American by birth and education, he has lived in South Africa since 1953, pursuing a successful career in broadcasting until his retirement in 1985. |
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... Bahá'í contact since leaving England . ( Topsy was a Bahá'í but never active , and eventually left the Faith . ) There was only one other Bahá'í in South Africa , Mrs Agnes Carey in Durban , but he had not known about her . " ( Extracts ...
... Bahá'í contact since leaving England . ( Topsy was a Bahá'í but never active , and eventually left the Faith . ) There was only one other Bahá'í in South Africa , Mrs Agnes Carey in Durban , but he had not known about her . " ( Extracts ...
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... Bahá'í Faith had on his life . He said it gave him contentment . His paintings reflect it . Turvey's works are not sentimental and he almost never painted overtly Bahá'í themes . He was not strongly attached to his paintings and rarely ...
... Bahá'í Faith had on his life . He said it gave him contentment . His paintings reflect it . Turvey's works are not sentimental and he almost never painted overtly Bahá'í themes . He was not strongly attached to his paintings and rarely ...
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... Bahá'í Faith in 1935 . Little is known of his other Bahá'í associations in England , but letters indicate that during this time he met Mr Hasan Balyuzi ( appointed in 1957 a Hand of the Cause of God ) and Mr David Hofman ( who was ...
... Bahá'í Faith in 1935 . Little is known of his other Bahá'í associations in England , but letters indicate that during this time he met Mr Hasan Balyuzi ( appointed in 1957 a Hand of the Cause of God ) and Mr David Hofman ( who was ...
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AN APPRECIATION OF THE MAN AND HIS ART by Lowell Johnson | 11 |
REGINALD TURVEY by Bernard Leach | 10 |
LETTERS TO BERNARD LEACH 19091920 | 17 |
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