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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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Facts about Granville Bruce

   Publications  Book References:  6
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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Granville Bruce
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art of the West What's News May 2005 Art of the West No
6 Book References for Granville Bruce
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942 606 No
1999 Grauer, Paula and Michael R. Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945 240 Yes
1998 Reaves, William E Jr Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream 92 Yes
1965 Tinkle, Schmitz, Winfrey Six Missions of Texas 0 Yes
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