biografia di Louis Oscar GRIFFITH (1875-1956)

Birth place: Greencastle, IN

Death place: probably Nashville, IN

Addresses: Nashville, IN; Chicago

Profession: Landscape painter, etcher

Studied: St. Louis School FA, 1893; AIC, 1895; with Frank Reaugh, 1896; NAD; Paris.

Exhibited: AIC; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (bronze medal); NOAA, 1916-17; PAFA, 1921; Hoosier Salon, 1925 (prize), 1930 (prize), 1938 (prize); San Antonio AL, 1929 (prize); Nat. Mus., 1945; LOC, 1943; NAD, 1943; Brown County AA, annually, 1938 (prize); Palette & Chisel Club, (gold), 1921; Indiana AC; Chicago SE, annually, 1949 (prize)Indiana AC, annually; Indiana PM, annually; John Herron AI, 1952. Other awards: Ade prize, 1925

Member: Chicago SE (founder); Brown County AA; Indiana AC; Hoosier Salon; Indiana PM; Chicago Galleries Assn.; Chicago P&S; Palette & Chisel Club (pres., 1911)

Work: Delgado Mus. Art; Oakland Art Gal.; Indiana Univ.; Lafayette (IN) AA; Vanderpoel Collection; NGA; Witte Mem. Mus.; J. B. Speed Mem. Mus.; Union League Club, Chicago.

Comments: Early in his career, he painted in Brown County, IN. After studying in St. Louis and Chicago, he made several trips to the South and West, as well as Maine and Brittany, France.

Sources: WW53; WW47; More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 166; PHF files; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 196; Falk, Exh. Record Series.