Fisherman's Haven

 

Gordon Hope Grant

  1875 - 1962 (biography)

c. 1940  

lithograph 

9 1/16 x 11 9/16" image size 

pencil signed, lower right 

presumed to be 250 

 

 

cream wove 

published 

Associated American Artists (AAA) 

19327 

SOLD

This lithograph had an old label from AAA and an annotatation "James M. Buxbaum, Harvard." Buxbaum was born in Jamaica, Queens, NY and his early interest in the sea can be implied from his having purchased this lithograph by Gordon Grant. He wnt on to be creator, writer, first story editor and associate producer of Sea Hunt series. After this he was story editor for the Aquanauts series. He then produced 58 episodes of the Flipper series, for which he also had script writing duties. In 1964 became vice president of the parent company of Ivan Tors Films, Inc. and for a time was president of Ivan Tors Miami Studios. He died in San Luis Obispo in 2011.