Reginald Turvey (book)
'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 judgement 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.
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Reginald Turvey: Life and Art
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978-0-85398-238-4
