Ila Mae McAfee
Ila Mae McAfee (October 21, 1897 or 1900 – April 18, 1995), also known as Ila McAfee Turner, was an American painter, muralist, illustrator and author. She was born in or near Gunnison, Colorado and known for her miniatures and as an animalier and muralist. She is best remembered for her paintings of horses, Western themes, landscapes, and portraits of Pueblos.
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- Name
- Ila McAfee
- Born
- 27 October 1897
- Birthplace
- Gunnison, Colorado, US
- Died
- 18 April 1995
- Place of death
- Pueblo, Colorado, US
- Education
- Western State Colorado University National Academy of Design Art Institute of Chicago
- Known for
- Painting
- Spouse
- Elmer Turner
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
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Ila Mae McAfee (October 21, 1897 or 1900 – April 18, 1995), also known as Ila McAfee Turner, was an American painter, muralist, illustrator and author. She was born in or near Gunnison, Colorado and known for her miniatures and as an animalier and muralist. She is best remembered for her paintings of horses, Western themes, landscapes, and portraits of Pueblos.
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McAfee studied at Western State Colorado College, at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design and with James E. McBurney in Chicago. During the Depression McAfee created post office murals through the Section of Painting and Sculpture in Gunnison, Colorado, Clifton, Texas, Cordell, Oklahoma and Edmond, Oklahoma. Turner had served as Assistant Librarian for many years. McAfee was the author and illustrator of Indians, Horses, Hills, Et Cetera and the illustrator for Historic Costume: A Resume of Style and Fashion From Remote Times to the Nineteen Seventies by Katherine Morris Lester. Ila met her husband, painter Elmer Page Turner, when they were both art students in Chicago. They were married in 1926 and moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1928. In 1981 she was designated Taos Artist of the Year.
Ila Mae McAfee studied at Western Colorado University, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. Residence is recorded at Taos art colony. Work by Ila Mae McAfee is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gilcrease Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art and Dallas Museum of Art.
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• Name — Ila McAfee • Born — 27 October 1897 • Birthplace — Gunnison, Colorado, US • Died — 18 April 1995 • Place of death — Pueblo, Colorado, US • Resting Place — Santa Fe National Cemetery • Education — Western State Colorado University National Academy of Design Art Institute of Chicago • Known for — Painting • Spouse — Elmer Turner
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• Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. • Illustration — Mountain Lions (1933–34), easel painting for the Public Works of Art Project • Illustration — Texas Longhorn—A Vanishing Breed (1941), mural for the U.S. post office in Clifton, Texas
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- 1.Petteys, Chris, "Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900", G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
- 2.Gilbert, Dorothy B., ed., Who's Who in American Art, The American Federation of Arts, R.R. Bowker Company, NY 1963
- 3.Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., "North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary" Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995
- 4.Living New Deal. Post Office Mural – Gunnison CO.
- 5.Living New Deal. Post Office Mural – Clifton TX.
- 6.Living New Deal. Post Office Mural – Cordell OK.
- 7.Living New Deal. Municipal Courthouse Mural – Edmond OK.
- 8.Nelson, Mary Carroll. The Legendary Artists of Taos. Watson-Guptill Publications. 140. 1980. 0823027457.
- 9.Indians, Horses, Hills, Et Cetera. LibraryThing.com.
- 10.Historic Costume: A Resume of Style and Fashion From Remote Times to the Nineteen-Seventies by Katherine Morris Lester. LibraryThing.com.
- 11.McAfee, Ila. Indians, Horses, Hills, Et Cetera. Ila McAfee. 1981.
- 12.Porter, Dean. Taos artists and their patrons, 1898-1950. Snite Museum of Art. 377. 1999. 0826321097.
- 13.Kovinick, Phil. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists. University of Texas Press. 209. 1998. 0292790635.
- 14.Ila Mae McAfee / Gilcrease Museum Collection.
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