Joe Grant

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Joseph Clarence Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American conceptual artist, storyboard artist, and screenwriter. Grant was born on May 15, 1908 in New York City on the Lower East Side. He was the son of George Albert Grant and Eva Green. He had a younger sister, Geraldine. Grant was a second-generation descendant of Polish and Russian Jews. His father George (1885–1938) emigrated from Poland at age 5, with his parents Nathan Gumolinsky and Fannie (née Freund). Nathan adopted "Grant" as his surname after emigrating into the United States, supposedly because he had admired U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant. Joe Grant moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was two years old, after his father was hired as an art director for William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner newspaper. At a young age, Grant was exposed to his father's extensive collection of European art books, which included Honoré Daumier, Gustave Doré, and Ludwig Richter. He also accompanied his father to his workplace, where he reflected years later, he learned his artistic techniques by looking "over my father's shoulder."