| Alistair Grant
1925-1997 |
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(untitled) Seascape
watercolour 45.5 x
59 cm |
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untitled (Coastal Landscape)
watercolour 45.5 x 59 cm
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Alistair
Grant was a
painter, printmaker, artist in collage and teacher, born in London.
He attended Birmingham School
of Art, 1941-3, and then spent four years in the Royal
Air Force. From 1947 to1950 he was at Royal College of
Art, with a continuation scholarship, 1950-1. Grant taught printmaking at Royal
College of Art, from 1955 where he became head of the department in 1970. He
took the chair of print-making in 1984, retiring in 1990. Grant
showed at the Royal Academy, Artists International Association, and New English
Art Club, at the Redfern, Piccadilly and Zwemmer Galleries and was a prize-winner
at the Krakow Print Biennale in 1972. The Victoria & Albert Museum,
British provincial and many overseas galleries hold Grant’s work. There was a
memorial show at Art First, 1997.
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