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James Grant
James Grant
Born	James Edward Grant; May 25, 1924; Los Angeles, California
Died	August 14, 1997 (aged 73); Stinson Beach, California
Education	Jepson Art Institute
Known for	painting, sculpture
Movement	Abstract expressionism
Website	http://www.jamesgrant.org/

James Edward Grant (May 25, 1924 – August 14, 1997) was an American painter and sculptor active from the late 1950s into the early 1970s. Best known for his sculptural work in plastics, this work by no means defined him but was rather a natural endpoint of an exploration into increased dimensionality—starting from abstract canvases, moving through collages and bas-reliefs until the work finally came off the wall in sculptural form.

Life and work

Early life and education

Grant was born in Los Angeles in 1924. After receiving his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Southern California, he went on to pursue his M.F.A. at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, studying under Rico Lebrun. In 1950 he accepted a teaching position at Pomona College in Claremont, California where he was Assistant Professor of Art for nine years. At about this time he married Nancy Parkford.^[1]^[2] During his tenure at Pomona he worked with many influential artists and art historians, including painters Karl Benjamin and Frederick Hammersley, as well as Peter Selz (who later went on to become Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Seymour Slive (Director of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University).

Artistic career

While working in Southern California, Grant had solo exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum, Pomona College Museum of Art, and the University of California, Riverside, and group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. After Pomona, Grant enjoyed a two-year stay in Rome where his paintings began to develop in texture—moving more towards collage work, using both paint and fabric. His stay was punctuated by a solo exhibition at the Galleria Pogliani in Rome.

Upon returning to the United States in 1962, Grant settled in San Francisco, where his collage work continued. In 1963 he had a solo exhibition at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. During the 1960s, he showed regularly at galleries and museums both in the Bay Area (Hansen Gallery) and New York (Bertha Schaefer Gallery and Grand Central Moderns).

In the mid 1960s, his collages began to include polyester resin which he applied in a painterly fashion to the canvas. Soon he began to cast the resin into large, textured bas-reliefs. His plastic work culminated in the development of large cast resin freestanding sculptures of geometric disks, tall spikes and subtly curved shapes which were highly polished. In 1970, he had a retrospective at Mills College in Oakland, California documenting his transition in style from abstract canvases to collages to bas-reliefs and finally the freestanding sculptures. In the 1970s, he worked on several commissioned works, many incorporating unique plastic and glass materials.

Later life and death

After a break from art during the late 1970s, Grant returned to painting in the early 1980s at his studio in Stinson Beach, California producing small watercolors that were cut into squares and reassembled into grids. He then took this format to a large scale, painting acrylic canvases which were also cut into squares and reassembled in works ranging from four to eight feet. This work continued into the 1990s.

Grant died in Stinson Beach in August 1997. When the new Stinson Beach branch library opened in 1999, the opening show was of Grant's work.^[3] The art exhibit wall is named in his honor.^[4]

Exhibitions

Bold entries denote solo exhibitions.

2008 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA, Selections from the Anderson Collection: The 1960s
2004 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Abstract Expressionism
1995 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection^[5]
1972 Triangle Gallery, San Francisco
1971 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
1971 Stanford Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, West Coast Art
1971 Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, Pierres de Fantasie
1970 Mills College Art Gallery
1970 Berkeley Art Gallery
1970 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, Looking West
1969 Seligman Gallery, Seattle, WA
1969 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
1969 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, Plastics: New Art
1968 Raymond College, University of the Pacific
1968 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, Plastic as Plastic
1968 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Recent Developments in Plastic
1968 Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, West Coast '68, Painters and Sculptors
1967 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Plastics West Coast
1967 University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
1966 Hansen Gallery, San Francisco
1966 Mead Corporation, Art Across America
1966 Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, ’66 Painters and Sculptors
1966 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Art Institute 85th Annual Exhibition
1963 M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
1963 Grand Central Moderns, New York
1963 Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
1962 Galleria Pogliani, Rome
1962 Art Center in La Jolla
1961 Grand Central Moderns, New York
1960 University of Nebraska, Nebraska Art Association Annual
1959 Pasadena Art Museum, A Decade (1949–1959)
1959 Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1958 Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1958 University of California at Riverside
1958 Humboldt State College
1958 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Art Institute 77th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
1957 California State Fair and Exhibition
1956 Pasadena Art Museum
1956 Pomona Museum, Pomona, CA, Grant, Hammersley, Lawler
1955 Los Angeles County Museum
1954 Oakland Art Museum, Western Painters Annual Exhibition
1954 Los Angeles County Museum

Public collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[6]
Oakland Museum
Pasadena Museum
Pomona College Museum of Art
Claremont Museum of Art
Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
Raymond College of the University of the Pacific
City College of San Francisco

Bibliography

Landauer, Susan (2004). San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. Crocker Art Museum. pp. 98–99.
Beebe, Marjorie (1988). Art at Pomona: A Centennial Celebration. Trustees of Pomona College.
DuPont, Diana (1985). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Paintings and Sculpture Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Albright, Thomas (1985). Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. University of California Press. p. 280.
Orr-Cahall, Christina (1984). The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum. Oakland Museum. p. 191.
Opitz, Glenn B. (1983). Dictionary of American Sculptors. Apollo.
Boyd, Margy (1975). The First Artists' Soap Box Derby. San Francisco Museum of Art.
Busch, Julia (1974). A Decade of Sculpture: The New Media in the 1960s. The Art Alliance Press. pp. 25, plates XII-XIV.
Butler, LeRoy (1970). Looking West 1970. Joslyn Art Museum. pp. 8, 80.

References

^ "WEDDINGS; Caroline Webber, Anthony Grant". The New York Times. July 30, 2000. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
^ "GRANT, Nancy Parkford". San Francisco Chronicle. September 4, 2003. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
^ Cambron, Tricia (December 24, 1999). "Stinson Beach Checks Out New Library". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
^ "Stinson Beach Library". Marin County Free Library. County of Marin. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
^ Baker, Kenneth (November 28, 1995). "Peninsula Collectors' `Bay Area Connection': 30-year panorama of art at the Triton". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
^ "James Grant 1924-1997, US". Artists. Artfacts.net. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

External links

[1] "WEDDINGS; Caroline Webber, Anthony Grant". The New York Times. July 30, 2000. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

[2] "GRANT, Nancy Parkford". San Francisco Chronicle. September 4, 2003. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

[3] Cambron, Tricia (December 24, 1999). "Stinson Beach Checks Out New Library". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

[4] "Stinson Beach Library". Marin County Free Library. County of Marin. Retrieved July 15, 2012.

[5] Baker, Kenneth (November 28, 1995). "Peninsula Collectors' `Bay Area Connection': 30-year panorama of art at the Triton". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

[6] "James Grant 1924-1997, US". Artists. Artfacts.net. Retrieved 15 August 2010.

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James Grant (artist)

Life and work

Early life and education

Artistic career

Later life and death

Exhibitions

Public collections

Bibliography

See also

References

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