Grant Drumheller is an American

United States

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 portrait

Portrait

thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

, figurative

Figurative art

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.-Definition:...

 and still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

 painter.

Biography

Drumheller earned his BFA (1976) and MFA (1978) degrees cum laude from Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

. He also studied with Philip Guston

Philip Guston

Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning...

, James Weeks and Reed Kay. Drumheller has taught at Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

, the Art Institute of Boston and is currently Professor of Art at the University of New Hampshire

University of New Hampshire

The University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...

. Originally he painted large works alluding to myth and allegory, but now works on smaller pieces.

Awards and honors

2004

• Finalist, Artist Advancement Award, Greater Piscataqua Charitable Foundation

2002

• Hatch Fund Award, College of Liberal Arts, Dept of Art and art History. In support of the catalog to accompany the Boston
• University Show,“A Private View: Paintings by Grant Drumheller”. 1996 New England Foundation for the Arts- NEA Regional
• Fellowship in Painting

1993

• Discretionary Fund Award, UNH.

2001, '98, '95, '93, '91

• Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant, UNH

1992, '89

• UNH Faculty Fellowship, summer

1986

• Pollock- Krasner Foundation Grant

1983

• National Endowment for the Arts
  National Endowment for the Arts
  The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
  
  , Artists Fellowship
• Alternate, Prix de Rome in Painting

1982

• The MacDowell Foundation, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Fellow
• Yaddo Art Colony, Invitation

1981

• Blanche Colman Award

1978-79

• Fulbright-Hays Grant, Painting in Italy

1976-78

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Boston University

1976

• Harold C Case Scholarship.

External links

• Personal Website