802. Frederic M. Grant (American, b. 1886), "Uncertain Weather", 1917; oil/canvas, 38.5" x 40.5", signed and dated, exhibition labels verso, fine contemporary hand-carved frame. Important Chicago landscape and still life painter. Grant studied with William M. Chase and Richard Miller. Grant’s finest works are his scenes of the beach at Lake Michigan. He favored a square composition and typically painted an expansive view, emphasizing the natural element as well as the figures. He exhibited extensively from the 1910s-40s, at the Art Institute of Chicago (1917), Chicago Art Club (1918), and the Palm Beach Art Center (1935-37). His work is in the collection of the State Museum in Springfield, Illinois and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is the finest example of this artist’s work we have seen at auction. 30,000-50,000 Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, 1917