Gordon Grant is best known for his maritime drawings, prints and paintings. Grant was born in San Francisco but traveled to Scotland as a boy and later studied art in London. Back in San Francisco he worked as a newspaper artist/reporter doing on-the-spot drawings during the Boer War and the Mexican Revolution. He became famous for his ship paintings when, in 1926, thousands of prints of his painting of the U.S. Constitution were sold to raise money for the preservation of that historic vessel. The original painting now hangs in the Oval Office. He later received a prize at the 1937 World’s Fair and his works have been purchased over the years by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library.