The Whale Hunt

Artist / Maker Gordon Hope Grant (American, 1875 - 1962)

Date1944

MediumLithograph on paper, pencil

Dimensionsimage: 8 15/16" x 9 7/8" on paper: 17" x 12"

ClassificationsPrints and Printing Plates

Credit LineGift of Lawton and Catherine Patten. In the permanent collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Object numberUM92.399

Status

Not on view

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Works of Art on Paper & Photography

Label TextGordon Hope Grant is best known for his marine paintings, watercolors, and etchings. He was born in San Francisco and when he was twelve, his parents, who were from Ireland and Scotland, sent him to school in Scotland. He embarked on a four-month journey on a Glasgow square-rigger, sailing the Atlantic Ocean. During his voyage he developed a lifelong fascination of the sea and sailing ships. At 18, he attended the Heatherly and Lambeth Art School of London then returned to San Francisco where he worked as an illustrator for local newspapers until 1896, when he moved to New York as an illustrator for both the World and Journal. In 1899 Grant was sent as an artist-correspondent to South Africa by Harper’s Weekly to cover the Boer War. In 1901 an exhibition was held of his watercolors at the Salmagundi Club in New York. In the years following his service during World War I, Grant concentrated on marine subjects, producing paintings and etchings, and illustrating books with nautical themes. Grant was a member of numerous professional societies: the American Watercolor Society, Society of Illustrators, Allied Artists of America, New York Society of Painters, New York Watercolor Club, and American Federation of Artists. Beginning in the early 1920’s he exhibited his marine paintings and watercolors at Grand Central Galleries in New York. He also started making etchings and won first prize at the Chicago Society of Etchers in the early 1930’s. From the late 1930’s to the beginning of the 1950’s his lithographic prints established his reputation as a printmaker and his work is now held in important collections nationwide including: the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

SignedSigned lower right hand corner.

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