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Turak Gallery, American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Paintings Wanted, Paintings Purchased, Paintings Sold
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One of the most colorful art world personalities in the Delaware Valley presides over a network of salmon-hued galleries on the second floor of a vintage brownstone, right around the corner from Philadelphia’s historic Rittenhouse Square. He is George J. Turak, 54, a Vietnam War veteran who, over the course of 30 years in the art business, has acquired one of the finest collections of 19th- and 20th-century American art in the country.
“I fell in love with the illustrations of Howard Pyle and the Brandywine school of art as a boy,” said the Wilmington native in an interview at The Turak Gallery of American Art, 132 S. 17th Street. “In fact, I may have been the only kid in history to play hooky from school to hang out at museums —mainly, in my case, the Delaware Art Museum.”
What first captured his attention was Howard Pyle’s “Marooned,” one the great illustrator’s paintings for adventure novels, this one depicting a shipwrecked pirate on an empty beach. “The loneliness of it,” Turak said, “haunted my dreams.”
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