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George
Grammer
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George was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1928.
He graduated from Paschal High School and came to be noticed in the late 1940s as one of Fort Worth’s most promising young painters.
Grammer began exhibiting his work in the local artist shows as early as 1947.
His studies took him to Texas Wesleyan College, where he studied under Kelly Fearing.
Once an art instructor in the Fort Worth Public Schools, he now lives and works in New York City.
The Fort Worth Circle
The Fort Worth Circle was critical in the development of the city’s growing arts community. By 1939 the Fort Worth Art Association, (now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) had moved from the Carnegie Public Library to the new Fort Worth Public Library. There the Association began annual juried local art shows with purchase prizes that were often awarded to members of the Fort Worth Circle. Although the members differed stylistically, the artist shared a love of sketching outdoors and of Fort Worth’s landscape and architecture.
These Texas modernist began to create meaning within the artwork itself. Different artist interpreted the techniques of modernism in varying ways, but the majority moved –to some extent-towards the use of abstraction and non-objectivity.
The Fort Worth Circle clearly made a local and national impression during the 1940s and 1950s. These artists can be said to have an international outlook, in part because many of them, including Grammer, expanded their art studies outside of Fort Worth.
The Circle had an amazing connection with New York critics and curators. As a result, several members of the Circle were highly successful in New York shows.
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"Vermont Spring"
George Grammer
Watercolor 18" x 24"
$2200
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"Rocky Point Beach"
George Grammer
Oil - 34"x24"
$4000
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"Bright Winter"
George Grammer
Oil - 32"x25"
$4000
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