Cynthia Brants (20 June 1924 – 11 January 2006) was an American artist and a member of the

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of artists. She attended Saturday classes at the Fort Worth School of Fine Art from the age of 10, studying under Blanche McVeigh. After leaving Fort Worth Arlington Heights High School, Brants attended

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, Greenway,

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and then majored in art at

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. Here she studied under Kurt Roesch and met a number of European refugees who were working in the New York art world, including André Masson and Lyonel Feininger. After graduation, Brants traveled around post-war Europe, and established her studio in

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. From 1958 to 1962 she taught painting and drawing at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1979 Brant moved to Granbury, Texas, where she worked as a scenic designer and painter during the renovation and re-opening of the Granbury Opera House.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brants, Cynthia 1924 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American painters Artists from Fort Worth, Texas Sarah Lawrence College alumni People from Granbury, Texas 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women