Gordon grant biography

A painter, illustrator, muralist, printmaker, and writer, Gordon Hope Grant is renowned for his images of ships and the sea. Grant was a native of San Francisco and was sent to school in his ancestral Scotland at the age of thirteen.

His voyage around the southern tip of South America and across the Atlantic inspired him with a passion for the sea that yielded images for the rest of his career. He graduated from the Fife Academy in Scotland and then attended the Heatherly and Lambeth Art School in London for two years.

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Returning to San Francisco, he worked as a staff artist for local newspapers for a year before moving east to make illustrations for New York journals.

At the beginning of the Boer War in South Africa in 1899, Grant became a war artist-correspondent for the popular periodical Harper’s Weekly.

Between 1901 and 1909, he was a general illustrator for Puck magazine. In 1927, he became widely known for his painting of the U.S.S. Constitution, which wa