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        • Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis
          Oct. 31, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis

          Est: $500 - $700

          Dwinell Grant Contrathemis 1941 collage and colored pencil on paper 8 h x 10.875 w in (20 x 28 cm) Signed and dated to lower left margin 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Abstract Composition
          Sep. 27, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Abstract Composition

          Est: $2,000 - $3,000

          Dwinell Grant Abstract Composition 1952 oil on canvas 60 h x 40 w in (152 x 102 cm) Signed and dated to verso 'Dwinell Grant 1952'. Provenance: Spanierman, New York | Rago, Spanierman, 11 November 2021, Lot 576 | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, No Escape
          Jun. 19, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, No Escape

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant No Escape 1961 ink, acrylic and mixed media on artist's board 20 h x 15 w in (51 x 38 cm) Signed and dated to lower right edge 'DG 61'. Provenance: Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery, Lambertville | Spanierman Modern, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          May. 30, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1936 ink on paper 9.75 h x 7.5 w in (25 x 19 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 36'. Signed and dated to verso 'Dwinell Grant 1936'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Accretion II
          Mar. 27, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Accretion II

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Accretion II 1978 ink and watercolor on board 20 h x 15 w in (51 x 38 cm) Signed and dated to lower edge 'DG 78'. Provenance: Hrefna Jonsdottir Gallery, Lambertville | Spanierman Modern, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Exposed Reactions
          Mar. 06, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Exposed Reactions

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Exposed Reactions 1952 ink on paper 29.875 h x 19.875 w in (76 x 50 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 52'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Inner Space
          Feb. 01, 2024

          Dwinell Grant, Inner Space

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Inner Space 1957 pastel on paper 19 h x 25 w in (48 x 63 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 57'. Provenance: Spanierman Modern, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Overlapping Forms
          Nov. 30, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Overlapping Forms

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Overlapping Forms 1990 marker on paper sight: 12.875 h x 9.875 w in (33 x 25 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 90'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Los Angeles Modern Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, No Escape
          Nov. 03, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, No Escape

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant No Escape 1952 ink on matte board 29.875 h x 20 w in (76 x 51 cm) Signed and dated to lower edge 'DG 52'. Titled and dated to verso 'No Escape 1952'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          Oct. 27, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1936 ink on paper sight: 10 h x 7.5 w in (25 x 19 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG36'. Signed and dated to verso 'Dwinell Grant 1936'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Kinship
          Sep. 27, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Kinship

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Kinship 1951 ink on paper 13.875 h x 10.875 w in (35 x 28 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 51'. Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Kinship 1951 Dwinell Grant'. Provenance: Spanierman, New York | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Abstract Composition
          Aug. 08, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Abstract Composition

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Abstract Composition 1941 colored pencil and collage on paper sight: 8.25 h x 10.75 w in (21 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 1941'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Window to the Mind
          Aug. 01, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Window to the Mind

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Window to the Mind 1961 ink on paperboard 21 h x 15 w in (53 x 38 cm) Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Window to the Mind 1961 Dwinell Grant'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Los Angeles Modern Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          Jul. 26, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1990 marker on paper sight: 13 h x 10 w in (33 x 25 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 90'. Provenance: Alderfer Auction, Hatfield, PA, Discovery Art, 12 September 2008, Lot 3053 | Private Collection This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
        • Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition
          Jul. 13, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Geometric Composition 1941 collage and colored pencil on paper sight: 8.25 h x 10.75 w in (21 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition
          Jul. 12, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Geometric Composition 1941 collage and colored pencil on paper sight: 8.25 h x 10.75 w in (21 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, From Above
          Jun. 13, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, From Above

          Est: $1,500 - $2,500

          Dwinell Grant From Above 1961 oil on canvas 30 h x 38 w in (76 x 97 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 61'. Signed, titled and dated to verso 'From Above 1961 Dwinell Grant DG'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant American, 1912- 1991 Contrathemis, 1941
          Jun. 07, 2023

          Dwinell Grant American, 1912- 1991 Contrathemis, 1941

          Est: $500 - $800

          Dwinell Grant American, 1912- 1991 Contrathemis, 1941 Signed with initials and dated DG 41 (ll); also inscribed 552 (ll) and Contrathemis 1941 frame 552 Dwinell Grant on the reverse Colored Pencil and collage on tissue paper 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm) Provenance: Martin Diamond Fine Arts, Inc., New York C Property from a Manhattan Collection

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        • Dwinell Grant, Black Geometric
          Apr. 20, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Black Geometric

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Black Geometric 1941 collage and pencil on paper sight: 8.125 h x 10.75 w in (21 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          Apr. 19, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1990 ink on paper sight: 13 h x 10 w in (33 x 25 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 90'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
        • Dwinell Grant, Blue and Yellow Curves
          Mar. 29, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Blue and Yellow Curves

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Blue and Yellow Curves 1941 collage and pastel on paper sight: 8 h x 10.75 w in (20 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition
          Mar. 23, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition

          Est: $600 - $800

          Dwinell Grant Geometric Composition 1990 ink on paper sight: 13 h x 10 w in (33 x 25 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 90'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Los Angeles Modern Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Blue and Green Abstraction
          Jan. 25, 2023

          Dwinell Grant, Blue and Green Abstraction

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Blue and Green Abstraction 1941 colored pencil on paper sight: 8.125 h x 10.75 w in (21 x 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant, New York (1912 - 1991), Line Study, 1942, mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper, 18 3/4"H x 14 1/4"W (sight), 24 1/2"H x 20 1/2"W (frame)
          Dec. 17, 2022

          Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant, New York (1912 - 1991), Line Study, 1942, mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper, 18 3/4"H x 14 1/4"W (sight), 24 1/2"H x 20 1/2"W (frame)

          Est: $400 - $600

          Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant New York, (1912 - 1991) Line Study, 1942 mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper initialed and dated lower right. significant creasing and waviness throughout but especially center right side in ground. Toning and matte burn along edges. Provenance: Ex. Meredith Long & Company - Houston, Tx Ex. Linda Hyman Fine Arts - NYC From the Archives of askART: Biography from Mark Borghi When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the National Academy of Design in 1933. By the time he arrived in New York, he had seen the Bliss collection and had begun thinking along modern lines. Although at the time, he said, his painting had not yet progressed "beyond the pointillist stage." After five months, he left the National Academy and in 1935 became an instructor in art and director of dramatics at Wittenberg College in Ohio. By this time, Grant's paintings were nonobjective, and he had come to believe that nonobjectivism "is a part of the earth itself. . . . In creating it we do not say something about something else, but rather we produce a rhythm which is a part of nature's rhythm and just as deep and fundamental as a heartbeat, a thunderstorm, the sequence of day and night or the growth of a girl into womanhood. . . . Nature is not something to be commented on, it is something to be."[1] At Wittenberg, Grant had little time to paint. His work with student dramatics provided an outlet for his innovative ideas. As the stage set for an experimental, symphonic drama, Grant designed and built a large, nonobjective construction, painted it gray, then lit it with colored lights controlled by dimmer switches. By varying the intensity of the lights, he found he could change the color, and therefore the mood, of the dramatic presentation.[2] Although Grant's avant-garde ideas soon brought him criticism at Wittenberg, his friends at the Dayton Art Institute encouraged his work, and suggested he write to Hilla Rebay at the Guggenheim Foundation for support. Rebay quickly became enthusiastic about Grant's ideas, and began sending him a fifteen dollar monthly stipend to help with the cost of materials. She arranged for Solomon Guggenheim to buy two of his drawings, and used several of his paintings in a group exhibition at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in the summer of 1940. The Constructivist stage set had transformed Grant's ambitions, and he yearned to make an experimental, nonobjective film. He wrote to Rebay, "I am no prophet. I am simply an artist who sees a neglected beauty that is bursting to be possessed. In the midst of the confusion of nationalistic isms here will be an art that is clean, naked and straightforward. It will be barbaric because it will have none of the sickening stupid veneer that civilization has laid on the arts for hundreds of years, but it will not be crude. And it will drive in to the emotions a new depth because of the primitiveness, the directness, and the fundamentalness of its expression."[3] With Rebay's assistance, Grant moved to New York and began working at the Guggenheim. His own art flourished, and between 1938 and 1941, he made several experimental films, including Contrathemis, an eight-minute, animated production, for which he did some four thousand drawings. In 1942, Grant went to work for a commercial film company and during World War II made Navy training films. Soon thereafter, he began doing scientific illustration and making teaching films for the medical profession. Although he continued to paint and draw independently, his career in medical films took precedence, and until the mid 1970s, he exhibited his creative work only on rare occasions. In New York in the early 1940s, Grant was friendly with John Sennhauser, Jean Xceron, Irene Rice Pereira, and others associated with the Guggenheim Foundation. However, he did not become actively involved with either the American Abstract Artists, or other organizations, that provided an artistic or political forum for practicing artists. His own vision had developed independently, and although his paintings bear some resemblance to those of Kandinsky, his interest in balance and rhythm grew intuitively rather than as the result of a theoretical searching for new forms of expression. 1. Dwinell Grant letter to Hilla Rebay, 24 July 1940, Dwinell Grant Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 2. For Grant's own description of the stage set and a newspaper clipping about the performance, see Grant's letter to Hilla Rebay, 5 May 1940, in Grant papers, Archives of American Art. I am grateful to Marina Pacini and Judy Throm of the Archives staff for their assistance. 3. Dwinell Grant letter to Hilla Rebay, 5 June 1940, Grant Papers, Archives of American Art. Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction, 1930-1945 (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), pp. 80-84. Copyright 1989 Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.

          Ripley Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Abstract Forms
          Dec. 15, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Abstract Forms

          Est: $500 - $700

          Dwinell Grant Abstract Forms 1990 marker on paper sight: 13 h × 10 w in (33 × 25 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 90'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Los Angeles Modern Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          Dec. 15, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1936 ink on paper sight: 9.75 h × 7.5 w in (25 × 19 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 36'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Los Angeles Modern Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition
          Dec. 13, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Geometric Composition

          Est: $500 - $700

          Dwinell Grant Geometric Composition 1990 ink on paper 13.625 h × 10.625 w in (35 × 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 90'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
        • Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis
          Dec. 07, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Contrathemis 1941 colored pencil on paper 8.5 h × 11 w in (22 × 28 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Abstract Geometries
          Nov. 16, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Abstract Geometries

          Est: $400 - $600

          Dwinell Grant Abstract Geometries 1952 lithograph sight: 28.5 h × 16.75 w in (72 × 43 cm) Stamped signature and date to lower left 'DG 52'. This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled
          Oct. 13, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Untitled 1936 ink on paper sight: 9.75 h × 7.5 w in (25 × 19 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 36'. Signed and dated to verso 'Dwinell Grant 1936'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Wright
        • Dwinell Grant, Linear Forms
          Sep. 29, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Linear Forms

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Linear Forms 1948 ink on paper 14.5 h × 10.625 w in (37 × 27 cm) Signed and dated to lower edge 'DG 48'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, Sphere and Triangles
          Sep. 29, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Sphere and Triangles

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Sphere and Triangles 1936 ink on paper 11 h × 8.5 w in (28 × 22 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 36'. Signed and dated to verso 'Dwinell Grant 1936'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • DWINELL GRANT "Contrathemis", Frame 2409.
          Sep. 22, 2022

          DWINELL GRANT "Contrathemis", Frame 2409.

          Est: $1,000 - $1,500

          DWINELL GRANT "Contrathemis", Frame 2409. Colored pencils on semitransparent wove paper, 1941. 215x280 mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. Initialed, dated and inscribed "2409" in pencil, lower left recto and signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso. Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey. Grant's (1912-1991) experimental silent film Contrathemis was created with stop-motion animation from more than 4,000 original drawings, like the present work. The drawings were individually photographed and put in order by the artist and synchronized to lighting effects created by colorized car headlights. Grant's use of the film medium allowed him to explore the potential of shapes and color put into motion. Contrathemis, supported by Hilla Rebay (1890-1967) and the Guggenheim Foundation, was the most notable, ground-breaking project of Grant's, of the several important avant-garde films he made between 1938 and 1941. The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., holds the drawing "Contrathemis", Frame 2401 which was used close in sequence to the present work.

          Swann Auction Galleries
        • DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Composition with circles and cones, 1990., Colored markers on paper, 13” x 10” sight. Framed 20.5” x 17.5”.
          Sep. 22, 2022

          DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Composition with circles and cones, 1990., Colored markers on paper, 13” x 10” sight. Framed 20.5” x 17.5”.

          Est: $400 - $600

          DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT New York, 1912-1991 Composition with circles and cones, 1990. Initialed "DG 90" lower right.

          Eldred's
        • DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Geometric composition, 1990., Mixed media on cream wove paper, 13” x 10” sight. Framed 20.5” x 17.5”.
          Sep. 22, 2022

          DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Geometric composition, 1990., Mixed media on cream wove paper, 13” x 10” sight. Framed 20.5” x 17.5”.

          Est: $400 - $600

          DWINELL (DWINNELL) GRANT New York, 1912-1991 Geometric composition, 1990. Initialed and dated "DG 90" lower right.

          Eldred's
        • DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Constructivist study, 1936., Pen and ink on paper, 9.75” x 7.75”. Framed 21” x 19”.
          Sep. 22, 2022

          DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Constructivist study, 1936., Pen and ink on paper, 9.75” x 7.75”. Framed 21” x 19”.

          Est: $300 - $500

          DWINELL GRANT New York, 1912-1991 Constructivist study, 1936. Initialed and dated lower center "DG 36".

          Eldred's
        • Dwinell Grant, Sundance
          Jun. 15, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Sundance

          Est: $1,000 - $1,500

          Dwinell Grant Sundance 1977 ink on paperboard 20 h × 30 w in (51 × 76 cm) Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Sundance DG 1977'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant, New York (1912 - 1991), Line Study, 1942, mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper, 18 3/4"H x 14 1/4"W (sight), 24 1/2"H x 20 1/2"W (frame)
          Jun. 04, 2022

          Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant, New York (1912 - 1991), Line Study, 1942, mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper, 18 3/4"H x 14 1/4"W (sight), 24 1/2"H x 20 1/2"W (frame)

          Est: $800 - $1,200

          Dwinell (Dwinnell) Grant New York, (1912 - 1991) Line Study, 1942 mixed media, pen, ink, watercolor on paper initialed and dated lower right. significant creasing and waviness throughout but especially center right side in ground. Toning and matte burn along edges. Provenance: Ex. Meredith Long & Company - Houston, Tx Ex. Linda Hyman Fine Arts - NYC From the Archives of askART: Biography from Mark Borghi When he was twelve, Dwinell Grant began studying landscape painting with his grandfather. Seeking further traditional training, in 1931 Grant enrolled at the Dayton Art Institute, which he soon discovered, had modernist leanings. After a year, he left Dayton to go to New York where he entered the National Academy of Design in 1933. By the time he arrived in New York, he had seen the Bliss collection and had begun thinking along modern lines. Although at the time, he said, his painting had not yet progressed "beyond the pointillist stage." After five months, he left the National Academy and in 1935 became an instructor in art and director of dramatics at Wittenberg College in Ohio. By this time, Grant's paintings were nonobjective, and he had come to believe that nonobjectivism "is a part of the earth itself. . . . In creating it we do not say something about something else, but rather we produce a rhythm which is a part of nature's rhythm and just as deep and fundamental as a heartbeat, a thunderstorm, the sequence of day and night or the growth of a girl into womanhood. . . . Nature is not something to be commented on, it is something to be."[1] At Wittenberg, Grant had little time to paint. His work with student dramatics provided an outlet for his innovative ideas. As the stage set for an experimental, symphonic drama, Grant designed and built a large, nonobjective construction, painted it gray, then lit it with colored lights controlled by dimmer switches. By varying the intensity of the lights, he found he could change the color, and therefore the mood, of the dramatic presentation.[2] Although Grant's avant-garde ideas soon brought him criticism at Wittenberg, his friends at the Dayton Art Institute encouraged his work, and suggested he write to Hilla Rebay at the Guggenheim Foundation for support. Rebay quickly became enthusiastic about Grant's ideas, and began sending him a fifteen dollar monthly stipend to help with the cost of materials. She arranged for Solomon Guggenheim to buy two of his drawings, and used several of his paintings in a group exhibition at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in the summer of 1940. The Constructivist stage set had transformed Grant's ambitions, and he yearned to make an experimental, nonobjective film. He wrote to Rebay, "I am no prophet. I am simply an artist who sees a neglected beauty that is bursting to be possessed. In the midst of the confusion of nationalistic isms here will be an art that is clean, naked and straightforward. It will be barbaric because it will have none of the sickening stupid veneer that civilization has laid on the arts for hundreds of years, but it will not be crude. And it will drive in to the emotions a new depth because of the primitiveness, the directness, and the fundamentalness of its expression."[3] With Rebay's assistance, Grant moved to New York and began working at the Guggenheim. His own art flourished, and between 1938 and 1941, he made several experimental films, including Contrathemis, an eight-minute, animated production, for which he did some four thousand drawings. In 1942, Grant went to work for a commercial film company and during World War II made Navy training films. Soon thereafter, he began doing scientific illustration and making teaching films for the medical profession. Although he continued to paint and draw independently, his career in medical films took precedence, and until the mid 1970s, he exhibited his creative work only on rare occasions. In New York in the early 1940s, Grant was friendly with John Sennhauser, Jean Xceron, Irene Rice Pereira, and others associated with the Guggenheim Foundation. However, he did not become actively involved with either the American Abstract Artists, or other organizations, that provided an artistic or political forum for practicing artists. His own vision had developed independently, and although his paintings bear some resemblance to those of Kandinsky, his interest in balance and rhythm grew intuitively rather than as the result of a theoretical searching for new forms of expression. 1. Dwinell Grant letter to Hilla Rebay, 24 July 1940, Dwinell Grant Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 2. For Grant's own description of the stage set and a newspaper clipping about the performance, see Grant's letter to Hilla Rebay, 5 May 1940, in Grant papers, Archives of American Art. I am grateful to Marina Pacini and Judy Throm of the Archives staff for their assistance. 3. Dwinell Grant letter to Hilla Rebay, 5 June 1940, Grant Papers, Archives of American Art. Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection: American Abstraction, 1930-1945 (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), pp. 80-84. Copyright 1989 Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved.

          Ripley Auctions
        • Dwinell Grant, Orange Gradation
          Jun. 03, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Orange Gradation

          Est: $1,500 - $2,500

          Dwinell Grant Orange Gradation 1976 oil on canvas 24 h × 32 w in (61 × 81 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 76'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

          Rago Arts and Auction Center
        • Dwinell Grant, R-8
          Jun. 03, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, R-8

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant R-8 1936 ink on paper 11 h × 8.5 w in (28 × 22 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 36'. Signed, titled and dated to verso 'R-8 Dwinell Grant 1936'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Blue and Black Form
          Jun. 03, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Blue and Black Form

          Est: $1,500 - $2,500

          Dwinell Grant Blue and Black Form oil on canvas board 17.875 h × 23.875 w in (45 × 61 cm) This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis
          Jun. 02, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Contrathemis

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Contrathemis 1941 colored pencil on paper 8.5 h × 11 w in (22 × 28 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 41'. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to verso 'Contrathemis 1941 Frame 2439 Dwinell Grant'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Red and Black Abstraction
          Jun. 02, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Red and Black Abstraction

          Est: $1,500 - $2,500

          Dwinell Grant Red and Black Abstraction 1977 oil on canvas 17.875 h × 36.125 w in (45 × 92 cm) Signed and dated to lower left 'DG 77'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled Surreal #226
          Jun. 02, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled Surreal #226

          Est: $800 - $1,000

          Dwinell Grant Untitled Surreal #226 1939 graphite on paper sight: 10.625 h × 8.125 w in (27 × 21 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 39'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • Dwinell Grant, Geometric Auras
          Jun. 02, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Geometric Auras

          Est: $1,000 - $1,500

          Dwinell Grant Geometric Auras 1942 watercolor on paper sight: 11 h × 14.5 w in (28 × 37 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'DG 42'. Titled and dated to verso 'Geometric Auras 1942'. This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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        • DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Geometric abstract., Watercolor on paper, 13" x 10" sight. Framed 20.5" x 17.5".
          May. 26, 2022

          DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Geometric abstract., Watercolor on paper, 13" x 10" sight. Framed 20.5" x 17.5".

          Est: $300 - $500

          DWINELL GRANT New York, 1912-1991 Geometric abstract. Signed in pencil lower right "DG 90".

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        • DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Abstract with blue and green., Watercolor on paper, 13" x 10" sight. Framed 20.5" x 17.5".
          May. 26, 2022

          DWINELL GRANT (New York, 1912-1991), Abstract with blue and green., Watercolor on paper, 13" x 10" sight. Framed 20.5" x 17.5".

          Est: $300 - $500

          DWINELL GRANT New York, 1912-1991 Abstract with blue and green. Signed in pencil lower right "DG 90".

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        • Dwinell Grant, Untitled (eight works)
          May. 24, 2022

          Dwinell Grant, Untitled (eight works)

          Est: $2,000 - $3,000

          Dwinell Grant Untitled (eight works) c. 1940 ink and watercolor on paper sight: 5.625 h × 7.5 w in (14 × 19 cm) Signed to lower edge of each work 'DG'. Provenance: Collection of Hilla Rebay | The Rebay Foundation, New York | Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York | Acquired from the previous in 1998 by the present owner, Private Collection, Texas Exhibited: Art International, 10 - 13 September 1998, Snyder Fine Art, Jacob Javits Center, New York This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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