Sabiha Rüştü Bozcalı

"[1] Bozcalı is known for her portraits, landscapes, still lifes, as well as her illustrations that circulated in advertising, publishing, and through major institutions such as banks and government departments.

She worked at studios of prominent artists of the early 20th century—with Lovis Corinth in Berlin between 1918 and 1920, with Moritz Heymann and Karl Caspar in Munich between 1921 and 1924, with Feyhaman Duran and Namik Ismail in Istanbul between 1928 and 1929, with Paul Signac in Paris between 1930 and 1933, and with Giorgio de Chirico in Rome between 1947 and 1949.

"[6] In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she participated in the government program called "Yurt Gezileri," which aimed to document the process of modernization in Turkey.

Between 1953 and 1972, she illustrated nineteen books, including Osman Gazi’den Atatürk’e (1953), Dağlar Kralı Balçıklı Ethem (1955), The Turkish Twins (1956), Anadolu Evliyaları (1958), Eski İstanbul Yosmaları (1959),Topkapı Sarayı, Osmanlı Padişahları, Tarihimizde Kahramanlar (1960), Forsa Halil, Erkek Kızlar, Dağ Padişahları (1962), Haşmetli Yosmalar (1963); Türk Zaferleri, Yeniçeriler (1964), La Fontaine Masalları, Patrona Halil (1967), Kabakçı Mustafa (1968), Türk Giyim Kuşam ve Süsleme Sözlüğü (1969), and Kösem Sultan (1972).

[1] In 2015–16, SALT organized an exhibition with her artworks and archival materials, including drawings, paintings, photographs, letters, postcards, and publications she contributed to.