Grant T. Reynard

(1887-1968) born at Grand Island. Illustrator, painter, teacher, was Redbook art editor and illustrator for nearly ten years, illustrated for more than ten national magazines, including Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal, published his own illustrated poetry book, and articles for magazines, lectured nationwide; elected to National Academy of Design in 1940, and his 3,000-piece collection is housed at Nebraska museums. Consult American Artist, Vol 25 (November 1961) 48-55, 80-83 and New York Times obituary, August 14, 1968, p. 39 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 5 (1973) 601 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, September 19, 1982, p. 14.

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