Josiah Grundy
1872 - 1946
Place of BirthLeicester, United Kingdom
Place of DeathSan Diego, California, United States
Born in Leicester, England on March 22, 1872. At age 14 Grundy became a seaman apprentice aboard the British bark Yosemite. Later he was prominent in the Merchant Marines and became port warden at Vancouver, BC. In 1922 he settled in San Diego County as a citrus farmer, a venture which proved unsuccessful. In 1938 he collaborated with Wilkins Wheatley on a book called Square Riggers Before the Wind. During WWII he had a studio in Balboa Naval Hospital where he taught art to the servicemen. Captain Grundy died in San Diego on March 30, 1946. A self-taught artist, his paintings and ship models are naive folk art. Exh: Calif. Pacific Int'l Expo (San Diego), 1935; San Diego Art Fiesta, 1938; LACMA, 1938 (solo); San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, 1943. In: San Diego Historical Society.
- Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" Death record.
Bibliography - Wilkins W Wheatly. Square riggers before the wind; a book about the old square-rigged sailing ships, with an exposition of the simplified method of making scenic action models of these ships under sail, as developed by Capt. Josiah Grundy ... New York : E. P. Dutton and company, 1939.
- Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940" Death record.
Bibliography - Wilkins W Wheatly. Square riggers before the wind; a book about the old square-rigged sailing ships, with an exposition of the simplified method of making scenic action models of these ships under sail, as developed by Capt. Josiah Grundy ... New York : E. P. Dutton and company, 1939.