biografia di Gordon Hope GRANT (1875-1962)

Birth place: San Francisco

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Marine painter, etcher, lithographer, illustrator, writer

Studied: Lambeth & Heatherley Art School, London, England.

Exhibited: AIC, 1906-11, 1913,1927, 1929, 1933, 1938; NAD, 1926 (prize); SC, 1929 (prize), 1931 (prize); AWCS, 1933 (prize); Chicago SE, 1935 (prize); PAFA, 1936-37; Paris Salon, 1937 (medal); All. Artists Am., 1942 (prize); LOC, 1944-46

Member: NA; ANA; Allied Artists Am.; AFA; SAE; Chicago SE; AWCS; Phila. WCC; Baltimore WCC; Ship Model Soc.; SI; Wash. WCC; Calif. PM; SC; North Shore AS, 1935-62

Work: Kendall Whaling Mus.; Mystic Seaport Mus.: New York Hist. Soc.; MMA; NYPL; Joslyn Mem.; Richmond (IN) Mus. Art; Brooks Mem. Art Gal.; Davenport (IA) Mus. Art; New Britain (CT) Mus. Art; LOC; U.S. Naval Acad., Annapolis; White House, Wash., DC; Corcoran Gal.; U.S. Naval Acad.; mural, MMA; mural, USPO, Kennebunkport, ME

Comments: A prolific marine artist and illustrator, his works have appeared in numerous publications and have been reproduced extensively as prints. In 1899, he covered the Boer War in South Africa for Harper"s, and from 1901-09, he illustrated for Puck. It was during the 1920s that his focus on naval and marine scenes began to win him wide recognition. Author/illustrator: Ships Under Sail," 1941; "The Secret Voyage," 1943; and other marine stories.

Sources: WW47; WW59; 300 Years of American Art, 722; Falk, Exh. Record Series; addit. info courtesy North Shore AA. "