Background
Grainger, Nessa was born on September 15, 1934 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Barnet and Pauline (Gittelman) Posner.
Grainger, Nessa was born on September 15, 1934 in Atlantic City. Daughter of Barnet and Pauline (Gittelman) Posner.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum School, 1955. Postgraduate, Tyler School Art, Philadelphia, 1959—1960. Postgraduate, Pennsylvania Academy Art, 1962—1964.
Artist in residence Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 2003—2006, 2008, teacher painting, Somerset Art Association, New Jersey, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, resident artist, Pennsylvania, teacher studio. Workshop presenter in field.
Member American Watercolor Society (signature member), National Association Women Artists (president 1989-1991, medal of honor 1973, Molly M. Canaday award 1997, Kopet award), New Jersey Watercolor Society (president 1982-1984, silver medal of honor 1985, Forbes award 1985, ODS award 1987, Mitzuki Kovacs award 1988, Henry Gasser award 1996, Avery and Nina Johnson award 1997-2010, Orthodiagnostics award 1992), Philadelphia Watercolor Club (Village Art award 1995), Knickerbocker Artists (silver medal of honor 1992), Allied Artists American (Henry Grasser Memorial award 1993, Mary Low Fitzgerald award 1996, Henry Gasser award 2003), Audubon Artists (vice president watermedia 1988, Koffler award 1987, Silver medal 1989, Elsie Ject Key award 1993, Liquitex award 1995, Dale Meyers Honor medal 1996, Frank Webb award 2003), American Society Contemporary Artists (Doris Kreindler award), Society Experimental Artists, Rocky Mountain Watercolor Society, since 1997 (Strathmore paper award), Pen and Brush Club, 1999, Philadelphia Watercolor Club (Dana memorial award 2000), Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (Edgar Whitney Memorial award 2001), Garden State Watercolor Society (American Frame award 2006), New Jersey Watercolor Society (Crimson Atelier award 2005, Contessa Bonardi Memorial award 2006), Allied Artists American (Henry Gasser award 2005, Allied artists American, Ny, 2006-2010, Jane Peterson award New Jersey Watercolor Society The Contessa Bonardi award Jane Peterson Memorial award 2006), American Watercolor Society (Freman award, 09), National Society Painters Acrylics and Casein, 2007 Liquitex award.
Married Murray Grainger. Children: Richard Greenbaum, Margie Friedman.