George Grammer (Texas, 1928-2019), farmhouse scene, gouache and watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 1949

sight: 22 x 26 in., frame: 25.75 x 29.75 in.

Provenance: Property from a collection in Fort Worth, Texas

George Grammer, a native of Fort Worth, attended Texas Wesleyan University from 1945 to 1947. He was the youngest member of the Fort Worth Circle of artists, which was a short-lived but long-reaching movement in the late 1940s. George Grammer, still a teenager, was embraced as its last member in 1946. Fresh from his art school studies, he was ten to twenty years younger than most of the other members. His former teacher Kelly Fearing was part of the Circle, as were Bill Bomar, Bror Utter, and a handful of other artists. In 2017, the university presented Grammer with an honorary Doctorate and featured more than 100 of his paintings and lithographs as part of an exhibit titled "George Grammer: Full Circle."