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Artist: Louis Oscar Griffith
Brittany Landscape with Figure
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Brittany Landscape with Figure
Etching & color aquatint, c. 1920
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left: "No. 21" (see photo)
An early color etching by the artist, based ...
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1920s American Impressionist Louis Oscar Griffith Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Nashville in Winter
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nashville in Winter
Etching, c. 1928
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Very small edition
A rare image of early Nashville, Indiana
Excellent impression with plate tone in the sky
First state before the aquatint depicting a winter nocturne with fall snow
Printed on a fine laid paper with a Crown & Shield watermark
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
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1920s American Realist Louis Oscar Griffith Prints and Multiples
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Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Desolation, S.C. or Deserted Cabins, Beauford, S.C.
Etching & Aquatint, c. 1930
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated "Trial Proof" in pencil lower left corner of sheet
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent
Note: An impression of this image is in the collection of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Condition: Excellent
Plate/Image size: 8 x 9 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 12 7/8 x 15 inches
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
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1930s American Impressionist Louis Oscar Griffith Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Sunbathing
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing
Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see photo)
An early color print by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Plate size: 11-3/4 x 15-7-8" (30 x 40.3 cm.)
Frame size: 21 x 26 1/8 x 1 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
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1910s American Impressionist Louis Oscar Griffith Prints and Multiples
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The Great Church, Nashville
By Louis Oscar Griffith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Church, Nashville
Etching & aquatint, c. 1936
Signed in pencil lower right
A very rare trial proof
Annotated "2" lower left corner recto
Three total impressions in the esta...
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