$1,500
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Auction: May 8, 2019 1:00:00 PM EDT
Signed bottom left, signed again and inscribed 'L-117' verso, inscribed with title and dated 1919 on the stretcher bar verso, oil on canvas.
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9cm)
Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
David & Ruth Robinson Eisenberg, Lakewood, New Jersey (acquired directly from the above in 1976).
By family descent.
Howard Eisenberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Born in 1861 in Portland Maine and the son of a skilled woodcarver, Walter Griffin is perhaps best known for his depictions of coastal towns and impressionist landscapes which consist of mosaic-like impastoed brushstrokes and vibrant swirling colors. Griffin drew inspiration from the decades he spent in Europe and his close contact with the Barbizon school of painters, as well as his close friendship with Childe Hassam and his residency in the Olde Lyme artists’ colony.