Born 1934 in Brooklyn, New York High School of Art and Design Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 1957 to 1959 US Army, stationed in Germany

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN WORK 1960 to 1997, including a variety of illustration assignments

Began painting full time in1998

 

 

Prices available upon request.

 

326 East 119th Street
New York, NY 10035
 
Telephone:  212.410.1350

Email: lougrantart@gmail.com

 

The Negro Baseball Leagues

Grant, himself a talented baseball player, first attended Negro League games as a child in the 1930s and 1940s. Baseball games were a community event — families put on their finest clothes and packed picnics for Sunday double-headers.Baseball players were idealized figures, and fans followed their careers as the players moved from team to team in the Negro Baseball Leagues and later in Major League baseball.

These paintings do not represent actual players. At that time, Negro League players were not featured as sports heroes in photos on bubble gum cards or in newpapers and magazines. Uniforms varied greatly, even within the same team — colors of socks and styles of lettering on shirts were inconsistent. The artist has had to rely on his collected memjories to create the images shown here.

 

Memories of Growing Up in Brooklyn

The paintings of family groups are also memory snapshots, recalling a tradition of posed family portraits. Everyone is dressed in their Sunday best, standing formally in front of the family house or next to a shiny new car, not necessarily their own, on their way to some holiday event or family gathering. Others are celebrating at the Cafe Zanzibar, or getting together after church.

 

Paintings in the collections of:

Jeanne Andlinger, New York, NY, and Paris, France
Bertha Brandon, New York, NY
Owen Brown Jr., Freeport, NY
Walter Dawes, Brooklyn, NY
Elaine Edwards, Brooklyn, NY
Jeff Friedman, CA
Larry Lyttle, Pacific Palisades, CA
William and Millie Gladstone, New York, NY
Wilbur and Marian Grant, Whitestone, NY
Paul Jones, Atlanta, GA
Steve Kahn, Heathrow, FL
Ellen Marsh, New York, NY
William Parsons, Brooklyn, NY
Mark R. Roberts, Menlo Park, CA
Ron and Barbara Schade, Rosendale, NY
Marsha Torn, New York, NY
Fred Wilpon, Long Island, NY
Permanent Collection of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY