A painter as well as innovative printmaker, she also experimented in small scale cast-bronze sculpture and model making. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she set up her first studio in Fort Worth, and became one of the Fort Worth Circle artists, whose work between 1940 and 1960 was highly influential on the art community in the area. Active another 50 years beyond this time, Brants produced landscapes and floral still lives, genre scenes, mythological subjects and bucolic scenes. Brants was born on June 20th, 1924, and died on January 11th, 2006 in Fort Worth. Sources: Hood County Texas Genealogical Society additional information courtesy of Larry Kleinschmidt