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Louis Oscar Griffith

Louis Oscar Griffith (1875 - 1956) was active/lived in Indiana.  Louis Griffith is known for Etcher, landscape, portrait, genre.

Louis Oscar Griffith was born on October 10, 1875 in Greencastle, Indiana.  In addition to etching, he was a painter of realistic landscape, portrait and genre, painting with Impressionist-influenced color and broad, relatively loose brushwork.

Griffith moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1893 to attend the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (attendance not confirmed by school records); he studied in Dallas with Frank Reaugh c. 1890; 1895-1896, 1896-1897, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the evenings; in 1908 in Paris and Brittany; as well as the National Academy of Design.

Griffith, over the years, lived at various residences including 1875-1879 Greencastle, Indiana; 1879-1893 Dallas, Texas; 1893-1896 St. Louis; 1896-1922 Chicago; 1922-1956 Nashville, Indiana.

He married Carolyn Maulsby in 1920. Griffith died November 13, 1956 in Franklin, Indiana.

Louis Oscar Griffith received many honors and awards during his lifetime:
1915 Bronze Medal,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 68886 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Louis Oscar Griffith available:    Dale Bessire,  Varaldo Cariani,  William J Forsyth,  Edward K Williams,  Georges La Chance,  Will Vawter,  Adolph Robert Shulz,  Carl Graf,  Claude Curry Bohm,  Lucie (Lucille) Hartrath,  Leota Williams Loop,  Richard Buckner Gruelle,  Otto Stark,  Glenn (Glen) Cooper Henshaw,  Marie Goth,  Ada Walter Shulz,  Frederik Grue,  Kelly Fearing,  Theodore Clement Steele,  Edward Eisenlohr,  John Ottis Adams,  Anthony Buchta,  Robert Wadsworth Grafton,  Charles William Dahlgreen



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Louis Oscar Griffith


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt Style
  • Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or WorkedArt Association
  • Chicago Society of Etchers
  • Hoosier Salon
  • New Orleans Art Association
  • Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago
Art Teacher
  • Frank Reaugh
Art School
  • National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
  • Palette and Chisel Academy, Chicago
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
  • St. Louis School of Fine Art, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
  • The Marshall Collection
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • AskART Panama Pacific Expo
  • Edgar B Davis Competition, Texas
  • Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
  • Sesquicentennial International Exposition, 1926, Philadelphia
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Hoosier Art Salon-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • New Orleans Art Association-
  • Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago-
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago

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