George Turnbull Fine Art - Western Art of the Great Basin

Born in northern England, George Turnbull is a naturalized American citizen who served his country in both the second World War and the Korean War. A high honor graduate from the prestigious College of Fine Arts of Carnegie Mellon University, in 1958, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Turnbull later earned his Master of Fine Arts Painting degree from the University of Southern California.

He became an award winning graphic designer and an international award winning calligrapher, and was also one of the founding members of the Los Angeles based Society for Calligraphy. Granted the title of Professor Emeritus, George Turnbull retired from a long and distinguished career as Professor of Visual Communication in the California State University system and eagerly returned to his passion for Fine Art painting, particularly of the American west he knew so well as a young man.

The current geographical focus of Turnbull's art is the Great Basin of the western United States; that part of the west where the cowboys known as Buckaroos still ride.The Great Basin runs from the eastern side of the California Sierras, up into southeast Oregon, and the southwestern corner of Idaho, and most of northern and central Nevada,clear into Utah. But the Great Basin is also a state of mind and a place in the heart.

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