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Identifier: AAA 6793
Reel 1514 (Gift): proportionateness, price lists, exhibition catalogues, clippings, sports ground Christmas game designed harsh Brants.
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Reel 1597 (Loan): 62 photographs fanatic Brants snowball her work.
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Cynthia Brants
Albany to remember late Granbury artist
Granbury artistCynthia Brants
(1924-2006)
A retrospective exhibition of the work of the late Granbury artist Cynthia Brants, titled “Beyond the Circle,” will be held Sept. 29 through Dec. 30 at the Old Jail Art Center in Albany.
Brants (1924-2006) was associated with the Fort Worth Circle, a group of artists who were active in the mid-20th century. As the title of this exhibition hints, she moved “beyond the Circle” as she continued to work for 50 years more.
Brants was a strong painter and an innovative printmaker who also experimented in small scale cast-bronze sculpture and model-making. This exhibition will feature her painting from the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st.
The works range from a 1946 still life, done the year she set up her first studio in her hometown of Fort Worth after graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, to a 2003 winter landscape depicting her final home in Granbury.
Margaret Blagg, executive director of the museum and curator of the exhibition, said, “Brants’ fertile intellect produced subject matter that runs the gamut from mythological subjects, to floral still life and landscape represented in refracted form, to bucolic and genre scenes depicted in evolving styl
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| Life Dates | 1924-2006 |
| Place of Birth | Fort Worth, TX, USA |
| Place of Death | Fort Worth, TX, USA |
| Birth Name | Cynthia Brants |
Cynthia Brants, a lifelong Texan, was born into a prominent Fort Worth family. At nine years old she realized she wanted to be an artist after sitting for a portrait with Dickson Reeder, a local artist who had coincidentally studied at Atelier 17 in Paris from 1936 to 1937 alongside his soon-to-be wife, Flora Blanc.1 In her teens Brants pursued instruction from other local artists including Blanche McVeigh, Evaline Sellors, and Wade Jolly. She attended Sarah Lawrence College beginning in 1941, where she met her lifelong mentor, Kurt Roesch. He had a profound impact on Brants’s career, introducing her to European modernism and arranging for her to attend Atelier 17 during her junior year. She jumped at the opportunity to study with Hayter and dove into printmaking studies with characteristic pluck. Prints such as Venus show her exploring two of Atelier 17’s core processes—engraving and soft ground etching—and foreshadow her rigorous technical experimentation at the printmaking studio she established in Granbury, Texas, in the 1970s.2 After a short, post-college trip to Europe, Brants returned to Texas, where she became a member of the