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Autumn Art + Design

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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Autumn Art + Design auction. Highlights include paintings by Harold Town, David T. Grafton, Richard Allen George, and Walter Louis Jones, sculptures by Isidore Grossman, a Don Herron Tubshots photograph, an Alice Ballard Munn whiteware vase, a set of Milo Baughman dining chairs, and other designer lighting, furniture, ceramics, Modern and traditional art, glass, photography, and more.
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Lot 274

Louis Oscar Griffith "Morning Chores" Etching

Estimate: $100 - $200
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$50

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Etching titled Morning Chores by Indiana artist Louis Oscar Grifftih (Americanl 1875-1956). Signed lower right, titled lower left.

 

Measurements: 7" W x 5.5" H (plate); 13.5" W x 12" H (mat board).

 

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From AskArt:

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.

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