Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Jules Turcas
Painter
Centurion, 1909–1917
Proposed by
Robert V. V. Sewell and John M. Carrère
Robert V. V. Sewell and John M. Carrère
born
March 15, 1851
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
died
March 16, 1917
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
December 4, 1909
Age fifty-eight
Age fifty-eight
seconder of
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Century Memorial
The same was true of Jules Turcas, a rare, romantic spirit, who in his later years was pleased to live and paint in our quiet old Connecticut village of Lyme. Although reared in Cuba, he was a Yankee with the best of us, and insistently American in the intentions of his art. He had known life in western frontier towns, in one of which he is said when young so effectively to have abolished a bully that the admiring citizens elected him sheriff. But Turcas was a quiet, friendly soul, happy in his social and domestic life. His art was simple and sincere, and may outlast the changing fortunes of those whose work has won a readier acclaim.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook
