Grant (1924-1997) was a California abstract painter and sculptor, born in Los Angeles. He studied engineering at the University of Southern California and received an M.F.A. at the Jepson Art Institute in Los Angeles, studying under Rico Lebrun. After graduation, he began a teaching position at Pomona College in Claremont, where he was Assistant Professor of Art for nine years. During this time Grant had solo exhibitions at the Pasadena Art Museum, Pomona College, and the University of California Riverside, and group exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum, the Oakland Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Art (now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). Grant traveled to Italy for two years (1960-62) and on his return settled in San Francisco. During the mid-1960s, in addition to his work in abstract painting, Grant began to work on relief assemblages which included polyester resin as well as large cast resin freestanding abstract sculptures. In 1970, he had a retrospective at Mills College in Oakland documenting his transition in style from abstract canvases to collages to bas-reliefs and finally the freestanding sculptures.
