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Hope Grant, marine painter, illustrator, author and printmaker, was born
June 7, 1875 in San Francisco California. Grant was sent to school in
Scotland as a youth "to maintain ancestral ties." The voyage
of four-and-a-half months from San Francisco around the southern tip of
South America, "the Horn," in a full-rigged Glasgow sailing
vessel left a tremendous impression on the young Grant and started a lasting
fascination with the sea and sailing ships. After studying in London's
Heatherley and Lambeth schools, Grant returned to San Francisco to work
as a artist/reporter for both the SF Chronicle and the Examiner. The artist
covered both the Boer War and the Mexican Revolution, his images of these
events were published in Harper's Weekly. Grant was most famous for his
maritime drawings and paintings. Grant received many awards from the American
Watercolor Society, and also at the Paris Exposition of 1937. His drawings
and paintings have been purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library. Grant died in 1962. |
