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May 2003 Fine Art and Antiques Auction

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90. Three Works by Walter Griffin (American 1861-1935)

Pencil sketches on cream paper. Two beach scenes are from the 1896 La Pouldu, France sketchbook. Village scene from the 1890, Fleury, France sketchbook. Stamped Griffin in lower right corners. Apprx 5" x 7 3/4" One of the best known landscape painters in Connecticut in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Griffin studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and in 1903 he joined fellow painter and close friend Childe Hassam in Old Lyme CT. He was elected to the National Acandemy in 1922.



200/400   Sold $333.50
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