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Walter Griffin

Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin (1861 - 1935) was active/lived in Connecticut, Maine / France.  Walter Griffin is known for Landscape-coastal-town, portrait painting.

 Born in Portland, Maine on 14 January 1861, the son of Lydia Libby and Edward Souther Griffin, a successful woodcarver, Walter began studying art under his father.  First, he  learned the techniques of sculpture, carving pictorial bas-reliefs, decorative works and small figures.  Even as a youth, Walter attempted to capture the likenesses of local  mariners who visited his father's studio and he was allowed to accompany his father on sketching trips with the group.  At the age of seventeen, Walter left home to attend the recently established School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he won a scholarship.  Here in 1878, his first teacher was Emil Otto Grundmann, and some of his fellow students include Edmund Tarbell, Frank W. Benson and Dennis Miller Bunker.  Walter excelled as a draftsman, following Grundmann's strictly academic training of sketching plaster casts of Antique sculpture and working out problems in compositional design.    ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9666 characters.]  Artist bio

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