Regionalist Works of Grant Reynard is on loan to Bone Creek Museum from Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, NE from November 3 through March 1, 2015.
Grant Tyson Reynard was born in 1887 in Grand Island, Nebraska. He moved to New Jersey in 1914 to become a freelance illustrator, attending the Harvey Dunn School of Illustration. It was here that he met and became lifelong friends with Dunn, Charles H. Chapman, Frank Street, John Steuart Curry, and Harry Wickey – all prominent artists.
In the 1950s Reynard’s focus began to shift from illustration to his own creative work. Reynard returned to Nebraska almost every summer to conduct lectures and art classes in Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Kearney, and North Platte. Today, his work is included in the collections of: the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska.