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James Grant

James Jeffrey Grant (1883 - 1960) was active/lived in Illinois / Scotland.  James Grant is known for Town-cityscape, fishing scenes, harbors.

A painter active in Chicago in the early half of the 20th Century, J Jeffrey Grant was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and studied art there and in Munich, Germany. He settled in Chicago in the 1920s but became best known for New England fishing villages and small towns in Illinois. He also did cityscape scenes of Chicago including the skyscrapers on Upper Michigan Avenue.

In 1935, he had a one-man exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Other exhibition venues were the National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Currier Gallery.

He was a member of the Palette & Chisel Academy in Chicago, the Chicago Painters and Sculptors and the North Shore Art Association of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Sources include:
Elizabeth Kennedy, "Chicago Modern 1993-1945"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"

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Facts about James Grant

   Publications  Book References:  22
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Grant
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Chicago Modern, 1893-1945 August 2004 Greenhouse, Wendy Yes
22 Book References for James Grant
Year Author Title Pages Color
2008 Editors, Vose Galleries of Boston Recent Acquisitions: Fall 2008
(Exhibition catalog)
39 Yes
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
2004 Kennedy, Elizabeth (Editor) Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2002 Gerdts, Dr. William H. (essay) The Friedman Collection: Artists of Chicago (Spanierman Gallery, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
335 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1959 Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies 718 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
110 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
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