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GORDON HOPE GRANT Gordon Hope Grant was born in San Francisco, California in 1875. He was an oil painter, watercolorist, illustrator and etcher of landscapes, marines, flowers and portraits. He studied at the Lambeth and Heatherley Art School in London, England. Grant was a member of numerous art organizations including the Salmagundi Club, NYC, The American Watercolor Society, The National Academy of Design, NYC, the Allied Artists of America, the Baltimore Watercolor Club and the North Shore Artists Association, Gloucester, Ma. He exhibited quite extensively during his lifetime at the Art Institute of Chicago (1906-1911, 1913, 1926 (prize), 1927, 1929, 1933). He also exhibited at the PA Academy of Fine Arts (1936-1937), the Salmagundi Club, 1929 (prize), 1931(prize), the Paris Salon, 1937 (medal), Allied Artists of America, 1942 (prize), the Library of Congress (1944-1946), the Kendal Whaling Museum, the Mystic Seaport Museum, the New York Historical Society, the White House and many other venues. In 1899, Grant covered the Boer War in South Africa for Harper’s and from 1901-1909, he illustrated for Puck. It was during the 1920’s that his focus on naval and marine scenes began to win him wide recognition. Grant was the author and illustrator of “Ships under Sail” 1941, “The Secret Voyage” 1943, and many other marine stories. Gordon Hope Grant died in 1962 in New York City. Today, his works can be found in private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the New York Historical Society and the Mystic Seaport Museum. |
