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Born in San Francisco in 1875, Gordon Grant’s Scottish parents sent him to London when he was fifteen years old to enroll in the Lambeth and Heatherley art schools.

The long voyage around Cape Horn instilled in him a respect for the ocean and allowed Grant to learn a great deal about sails, rigging, navigation and the history of maritime travel. Returning to San Francisco in 1895, he secured a position as an illustrator for the Chronicle before moving to New York a year later and joining several arts organizations, including the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Watercolor Clubs, and the National Academy of Design.

Grant continued his commercial projects, working as a correspondence-artist for Harper’s in 1899 during the Boer War in South Africa, and he also created illustrations for Puck magazine between 1901 and 1909.

He joined the National Guard around 1907 and during World War I, when a bad foot prevented him from serving abroad