Gordon Hope Grant artwork

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RITArt-0037

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Gordon Hope Grant artwork contains 5 lithographs and 1 watercolor painting, all of a maritime nature:

Small Craft, lithograph, 1943

The Seine Boat, lithograph, 1943

The Sand Fence, lithograph, circa 1940

Untitled (boat in harbor), lithograph, undated

Untitled (sailing vessel), lithograph, undated

Untitled (woman and 2 sailors), watercolor painting, undated

Dates

Creation: circa 1940-1945

Creator

Grant, Gordon (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to researchers.

Biographical / Historical

Gordon Grant’s paintings and etchings of boats and other maritime subjects was influenced by his boyhood sea voyage from San Francisco to Scotland at a time when such trips still involved sailing around Cape Horn. Prints of his paintings and drawings of the U.S.S. Constitution greatly contributed to the preservation of that famous vessel. He worked as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly, Puck, and the San Francisco Examiner. Even though he was best know as a marine painter, he created etchings and lithographs.