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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

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Research resources

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