![Helen Maria Turner - Lilies, Lanterns and Sunshine [1923]](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1542/23661699223_54cbf8e62d_o.jpg)
Helen Maria Turner (Louisville, Kentucky, November 13, 1858 - New Orleans, January 31, 1958) was an American painter and teacher, known for her work in oils, watercolours and pastels in which she created miniatures, landscapes, still lives and portraits, often in an Impressionist style. With its "broken" technique, blonde palette, and concern with the effect of light on her subjects, Turner's style has been described as Impressionistic. None of her early work, from her first years in New Orleans, is known to survive; it is believed to have likely been academic in nature given what is known of her first instructors. She continued to paint into the 1930s, but her eyesight gradually deteriorated; eventually she developed cataracts, and she was unable to paint at all after 1949.
[Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia - Oil on canvas, 103.5 x 123.8 cm]