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Donald Grant (1924-2001)
Horses in a paddock
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
Canvas size - 24 x 36 in
Donald Currie Grant was born in 1930 in North Shields, Northumberland, and from the very beginning it was clear that he possessed an extraordinary gift for art. By the age of nine he had already sold his first painting to the family doctor, won a national drawing and design competition, and even received praise from the Duke of Gloucester for a mural he painted in a public building. His youthful determination was matched by a streak of adventure: at sixteen, fascinated by aircraft, he famously climbed a barbed-wire fence at Biggin Hill Airfield to sketch a Spitfire, only to be promptly arrested. Within an hour, however, he had produced a delicate watercolour of the aircraft on wet tarmac — a bold act that revealed both his artistic confidence and his refusal to let obstacles hold him back.
Grant’s early working life was spent honing technical skills that would later shape his precision as an artist. He served an apprenticeship as a shipbuilding draughtsman, spent time abroad during his Army service, and later worked as a technical illustrator, car stylist, and freelance advertising artist. His commissions came from companies of the highest calibre, including Rolls-Royce and B.S.A., and this grounding in mechanical accuracy lent a distinctive clarity and discipline to his later wildlife paintings.
In the 1960s, Grant’s fascination with ballooning led him to create a striking series of paintings depicting hydrogen balloons adrift among towering cloudscapes. These works, atmospheric and carefully observed, were a breakthrough: one was accepted and sold by the Royal Academy in London, cementing his reputation as an artist of both vision and technical mastery.
Yet it was the African wilderness that truly captured Grant’s imagination and defined his legacy. Regular safaris across the plains provided him with endless opportunities to sketch lions, cheetahs, elephants, and zebras in their natural settings. His paintings of these creatures are not mere illustrations but dynamic evocations of the drama of the wild. Light, atmosphere, and movement infuse his canvases, giving his work an immediacy and vitality that drew collectors from around the world.
Over the course of his career, Grant’s work was exhibited widely, from the Royal Academy in London to the National Art Museum of Sport in New York, and in venues as far afield as Dubai and Monaco. His paintings entered private collections across Europe, America, and beyond, with some works fetching considerable sums at auction — including a powerful study of a bull elephant that sold for over $70,000 shortly after his death.
Donald Grant’s art combined the discipline of a draughtsman with the heart of an adventurer. Whether painting the quiet grace of an elephant herd at dusk or capturing the fleeting tension of a predator mid-hunt, he brought the African wild vividly to life for audiences far from the savannah. When he died in 2001, he left behind a body of work that continues to inspire admiration, not only for its technical brilliance but for its deep reverence for the natural world.
- Creator:Donald Grant (1930-2001, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Stoke, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU446316798272
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