The Race is Not Always to the Biggest Car
Date1908
Artist
Gordon Grant
(American illustrator, 1875–1962)
Illustration CitationPuck, September 9, 1908
MediumCommercial lithograph with hand-coloring
Dimensionscomposition: 8 1/4 × 11 in. (21 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 11 3/16 × 14 1/4 in. (28.4 × 36.2 cm)
sheet: 11 3/16 × 14 1/4 in. (28.4 × 36.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1983
Object number1983-132
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextGordon Hope Grant was born in San Francisco, but educated in Scotland and England. He then returned to San Francisco as a newspaper illustrator until 1896 when he moved to New York City, serving as an artist-reporter covering the Boer War for Harper's Weekly. He then moved on to the humor magazine Puck magazine. After service in World War I, he continued his work as an illustrator in New York, while also creating oils, watercolors and etchings.Grant created this drawing for Puck.The caption, and the significant look exchanged by the men, suggest that automotive and romantic competition are both at work.
