Grace Turnbull, born into a prominent Baltimore family, was a lifelong resident of her native city. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with William Merritt Chase (1849 – 1916) and Cecilia Beaux (1855 – 1942) and at the Rinehart School of Sculpture of the Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 1911. Much of Turnbull’s art was inspired by extensive travels throughout the United States and Europe as well as Bermuda, the West Indies and Mexico. In 1928, she turned almost exclusively to sculpture, working in bronze and carving directly in stone and wood, her production celebrating the world around her in a range of figure and animal studies. Throughout her long life, Grace Turnbull was a frequent exhibitor in both national and regional shows and is represented in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.