Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
(Exhibition catalog)
2008Berman, Avis (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
120 pages (color)
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1912 - 1991 Solebury, Pennsylvania. Known for: Geometric abstraction painting, drawing, collage.
When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon... Read full biography
When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the... Read full biography
When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the National Academy of Design in 1933. By the time he arrived in New York, he had seen the Bliss collection and had begun thinking along modern lines. Although at the time, he said, his painting had not... Read full biography
When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the National Academy of Design in 1933. By the time he arrived in New York, he had seen the Bliss collection and had begun thinking along modern lines. Although at the time, he said, his painting had not yet progressed "beyond the pointillist stage." . After five months, he left the National Academy and in 1935 became an instructor in art and director of dramatics at Wittenberg College in Ohio. By this time, Grant's paintings were nonobjective, and he... Read full biography
When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the National Academy of Design in 1933. By the time he arrived in New York, he had seen the Bliss collection and had begun thinking along modern lines. Although at the time, he said, his painting had not yet progressed "beyond the pointillist stage." . After five months, he left the National Academy and in 1935 became an instructor in art and director of dramatics at Wittenberg College in Ohio. By this time, Grant's paintings were nonobjective, and he had come to believe that nonobjectivism "is a part of the earth itself. In creating it we do not say s... Read full biography
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Order and Intuition American Abstraction From The Patty & Jay Baker Naples Museum of Art, 1913-1954
2008The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesAmerica Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties
2000
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman Gallery56 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesTheme & Improvisation Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Levin, Gail/Marianne Lorenz236 pagesAmerican Works on Paper III
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Spanierman Gallery150 pages (color)