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Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a Scottish painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major in the army, and much of his early childhood was spent in India and Burma.
By Darren Clarke. When Duncan Grant ’s first solo exhibition opened at the Carfax Paterson Gallery, Old Bond Street, London in February 1920, the artist was 35 years old (he was born on 21 January 1885). That may seem a little mature for an event of this nature, but Grant had been diligently building his reputation over the previous 10 years.
4 de jun. de 2023 · Duncan Grant est mort à Aldermaston, et il est enterré à côté de Vanessa Bell dans le cimetière de l’église Saint-Pierre, West Firle, East Sussex. Ses œuvres sont aujourd’hui exposées au musée du Louvre, à la Tate Gallery de Londres, ainsi que dans de nombreux autres prestigieux musées et collections privées.
14 de jan. de 2023 · Duncan Grant’s speech notes for a Simon Bussy exhibition in the 1940s In the winter of 1904, Duncan travelled to Florence with his mother. Every day he would visit the Uffizi, a gallery in the historic centre of the city, and was mesmerised by the early renaissance paintings of Piero della Francesca and Massacio that were exhibited there.
When Duncan Grant celebrated his birthday on 21 January, 1914, his mother told him he was 28. "I thought I was 29," he told Maynard Keynes. "So I have a whole year to spare!" Though his mother was ...
Duncan Grant (1885–1978) Tate. (b Rothiemurchus, nr. Aviemore, 21 Jan. 1885; d Aldermaston, Berkshire, 8 May 1978). British painter and designer. Through the writer Lytton Strachey (his cousin) he became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and he was also familiar with avant-garde circles in Paris (he met Matisse in 1909 and Picasso soon ...
Duncan Grant was interested in art from a young age and was encouraged by a family friend - the French painter Simon Bussy – to pursue it as a career. After a brief period studying at art schools in Paris and London, Grant rented two rooms in Fitzroy Square and soon became close friends with Adrian and Virginia Stephens (later Woolf).
