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Artist Exhibitions:
One-man show of photographs of
works, Zagreb, Croatia, 1990
One man show, Croatian
Cultural Center, Cleveland,
Ohio 1992
National Sculpture Society
Annual Exhibition, New York,
1994
Croatian Horizons
International Exhibition,
Zagreb, Croatia, 1997
National Sculpture Society
Fellowship Exhibition, New
York 2001...
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Collections:
Private collection, Detroit,
MI, USA
Private Collection,
Cincinnatti, OH, USA
Private Collection, Lincoln,
NE, USA
Private Collectiions,
Cleveland, OH, USA
Private Collection, Baltimore,
MD, USA
Private Collection, Los
Angeles, CA , USA...
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Commissions:
Notre Dame University, South
Bend, IN, USA
National Shrine of Immaculate
Conception, Washington D.C.,
USA
Gilmour Academy, Gates Mills,
OH, USA
Masonic Lodge of Erie County,
Buffalo, NY, USA
St. Francis Hospital, Dubuque,
IA, USA
Crozier House of Studie, Ft.
Wayne, IN, USA
Villa Maria, PA, USA
US Guarantee & ...
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Artist Statement for Joseph Turkaly
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Joseph Turkaly was classically educated in the arts at the Fine Arts Academy in Zagreb, Croatia, and then later received his Masters degree from the Fine Arts Academy in Rome, Italy in 1954. That year he won first prize for sculpture at National Student’s Exhibition in Milan, Italy. After seeing his works, the late Ivan Mestrovic offered Joseph Turkaly a position as his assistant as the University of Notre Dame in 1957. After Ivan Mestrovic died in 1962, Joseph took over his teaching position at the University, where he taught sculpting for the next two years.
In 1965, he moved to Cleveland, where he currently lives. Here he accepted a teaching assignment at Gilmour Academy. At the time the high school had no art department and Joseph Turkaly laid the foundation of a new curricular option. The department steadily grew under his guidance and received many accolades from state accreditation committees.
Throughout Joseph’s career as a teacher, he also was a prolific sculptor, commissioned to create many public and private works. Among them are; Moses, an eighteen foot bronze on the campus of Notre Dame, George Washington, a nine foot bronze outside the County Courthouse in Buffalo, New York, Our Lady of Peace, and Our Lady of Bistrica, two seven foot marble pieces at the National Shrine in Washington , D.C. He has works in public and private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, Croatia, and Argentina. His recent work, The Immigrant Mother, has been commissioned in limestone in Toronto, Canada, and bronze pieces have been installed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Zagreb, Croatia, as well a one in front of Joseph’s home in Cleveland Heights.
Joseph Turkaly won the award for best garden sculpture at a joint exhibition of the National Arts Club and The National Sculpture Society in 1961, and won the prestigious John Gregory award 1965, an award based on an artist's entire body of work.
He has been a member of the National Sculpture Society since 1965 and has been elevated to Fellow in 1994. He has exhibited there, in New York, numerous times over the years.
Currently, Joseph Turkaly has retired from teaching, and now devotes all his time to sculpting. He welcomes inquires into his art as well as possible commissions. He also invites visitors to his studio in Cleveland and enjoys talking to people about his art.
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