Schooled in the European academic tradition, Grant brought to his canvasses an intelligent and disciplined feeling for design, form, and color, all elements on display in Window Shopping. The scene capturing visitors to a neighborhood store cannot be specifically located, yet it radiates with a sense of small-town charm found in both his views of Cape Ann and in his depictions of Midwest villages closer to home. Flanked by a market on the left and what is likely a café on the right, the white clapboard building serves a dual purpose as a place of business and a residence, perhaps for the proprietor themselves, thus exemplifying the old practice of living over the shop.
 

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Provenance:

By descent through the artist’s family to private collection, San Diego, California