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1928 - 2019. Known for: Abstract city scene, buildings, marine, landscape, still life and figure painting.
As a child of the Great Depression, George Grammer (1928- ) was constrained to be creative with the scant materials on hand. No paper? Shirt-cardboards, thoughtfully saved by his grandmother, would... Read full biography
As a child of the Great Depression, George Grammer (1928- ) was constrained to be creative with the scant materials on hand. No paper? Shirt-cardboards, thoughtfully saved by his grandmother, would do the trick. No canvas? Window-shade material could work. Always this resourceful and precocious,... Read full biography
As a child of the Great Depression, George Grammer (1928- ) was constrained to be creative with the scant materials on hand. No paper? Shirt-cardboards, thoughtfully saved by his grandmother, would do the trick. No canvas? Window-shade material could work. Always this resourceful and precocious, Grammer blew through school, graduating from Fort Worth’s Paschal High at just 16. He attended Texas Wesleyan University on scholarship. After only two years’ tutelage there under the influential Kelly... Read full biography
As a child of the Great Depression, George Grammer (1928- ) was constrained to be creative with the scant materials on hand. No paper? Shirt-cardboards, thoughtfully saved by his grandmother, would do the trick. No canvas? Window-shade material could work. Always this resourceful and precocious, Grammer blew through school, graduating from Fort Worth’s Paschal High at just 16. He attended Texas Wesleyan University on scholarship. After only two years’ tutelage there under the influential Kelly Fearing, Grammer was off to Mexico on another scholarship. His work at the San Miguel de Allende school won him one more scholarship, this time to the prestigious Art Students League of New York. Still of modest means, Grammer’s New York study was... Read full biography
As a child of the Great Depression, George Grammer (1928- ) was constrained to be creative with the scant materials on hand. No paper? Shirt-cardboards, thoughtfully saved by his grandmother, would do the trick. No canvas? Window-shade material could work. Always this resourceful and precocious, Grammer blew through school, graduating from Fort Worth’s Paschal High at just 16. He attended Texas Wesleyan University on scholarship. After only two years’ tutelage there under the influential Kelly Fearing, Grammer was off to Mexico on another scholarship. His work at the San Miguel de Allende school won him one more scholarship, this time to the prestigious Art Students League of New York. Still of modest means, Grammer’s New York study was underwritten by a Dallas patron who provided living expenses in exchange for paintings. While in New York, Grammer fell in love -... Read full biography
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Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
First Light: Local Art and the Fort Worth Public Library, 1901-1961 (Exhibition catalog)