Glenn Gant (1911–1999) was a

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who was best known for his Regionalist and

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s. Gant was born in

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in 1911. He began his art career at the

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in 1930, and he studied under famed Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton in the mid- to late 1930s. In the 1930s and 1940s, Gant became widely known in his own right for his regionalist paintings of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

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interrupted his career, as he served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. Gant returned to Kansas City after the war and was a member of the Art Institute's faculty until 1960. During the early 1950s Gant studied at the University of the Americas in

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. His work of the time was influenced by Mexican artists

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and

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. In 1960, Gant moved to

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, where he continued to paint until his death in 1999. Gant's paintings are in many notable private collections throughout the country.

References

* ''The Artists Bluebook''. Lonnie Pierson Dunbar, editor. P. 479. March 2005. * ''Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton''. Marianne Berardi. The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. 1993 1911 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American printmakers American male painters United States Army personnel of World War II Artists from Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City Art Institute alumni American modern painters People from Carroll County, Arkansas People from Eureka Springs, Arkansas United States Army soldiers 20th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1910s-stub