Louis Oscar Griffith Landscape Oil Painting of Forest Scene

Item Details

Louis Oscar Griffith (Indiana, 1875 – 1956)
Untitled (landscape)
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to lower right
Presented in hand carved wood frame

Born in Indiana, Griffith’s family moved to the Dallas area, where he started to develop his art skills under the tutelage of landscape artist Frank Reaugh. He received a formal education from the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. Afterwards, he moved to Chicago and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Griffith also found commercial success in Chicago. Griffith took up printmaking during his travels to England and France. He later joined the Palette and Chisel Club. Eventually he settled in Brown County, Indiana, where he painted his best known works. His impressionistic landscapes of western Texas and Brown County are highly sought-after.

Condition

- canvas has been relined and waxed; scattered inpainting; scattered areas of craquelure; shallow impression to canvas to upper left; dust and light scattered accretion; scattered spots of paint loss, most notably at canvas edges; minor nicks, scratches and finish wear to frame; under UV light examination no areas of inpainting are revealed throughout the composition.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 39.5" W x 31.5 H.

Item #

ITMG734851