Almon Richard “Dick” Turner GS ’59, author of “Inventing Leonardo” and former University professor of art and archaeology, died on Sept. 9 in Cape May Court House, N.J. The cause of death was lymphoma, according to his son Louis.
Born in 1932 in New Bedford, Mass., Turner received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from the University. He taught at the University of Michigan, Princeton and Middlebury College before becoming president of Grinnell College in Iowa in 1975.
In 1979, Turner became the director of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Before retiring from the university in 2000, he served as dean of the faculty of arts and science. He was also the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
“Inventing Leonardo,” a 1993 study of Leonardo da Vinci, is Turner’s most well-known work. The study explored how perceptions of da Vinci changed throughout the centuries.
“There is a 1550 Leonardo, an 1800 one, an 1850 one and so on,” Turner wrote in the introduction to his book. “Each is a different character based on the needs of the given time that produced him, and each has ties to the Leonardo that went before.”
In addition to his son Louis, Turner is survived by his wife, Jane; another son, David; a sister, Betsy; six grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren.
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