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Granville Bruce

Granville Bruce (1903 - 1989) was active/lived in Texas, Nebraska.  Granville Bruce is known for Natural history diorama, architecture.

Known best for his later work on natural history diorama and scenes of historic Texas architectural subjects, Granville Bruce (1903-1989) excelled as a draftsmen in Texas. A native of Grand Island, Nebraska, he was raised in Milwaukee, where he attended the Layton School of Art. Bruce also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before moving to Texas in 1924.

In San Antonio he studied with Hugo Pohl in the late 1920s and they built a studio in San Antonio's Brackenridge Park near the zoo. From his base in the park Bruce produced beautiful sketches in pencil and charcoal of historic sites and genre scenes around San Antonio and nearby towns such as Goliad; using the sketches throughout his career. Bruce and Pohl took sketching trips to other parts of Texas and the Southwest in a converted Model-T, traveling through West Texas, El Paso, and north through Santa Fe to Taos in 1927, for example. Bruce submitted a painting to the 1929 San Antonio Competitive Exhibition ("D   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3652 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Granville Bruce


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Diorama, Museum Display Background
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Magazine Illustration
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • Spanish Missions, California
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
  • Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
  • Texas Before 1940
Art School
  • Layton School of Art, Student
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Mural Specialty
  • Watercolor Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Edgar B Davis Competition, Texas
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Allied Artists of America

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