藝術家Walter Parson Shaw GRIFFIN (1861-1935) 生平簡歷

出生地： Portland, ME

死亡地点： Portland, ME

地址： Hartford and Farmington, CT, c.1898-c.1906; Old Lyme, periodically, 1904-08; Portland, ME

职业： Landscape painter

教育： BMFA School, 1877-82; NAD, 1882 with Montague Flagg; …cole des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens; also with Raphael Collin in Paris, 1887.

展出： Paris Salon, 1889, 1894, 1895, 1897; Boston AC, 1898; PAFA, 1898, 1904-18, 1922, 1924 (gold), 1932; Wadsworth Atheneum, 1903; Old Lyme, 1904-10, 1915-18; Corcoran Gal., 1907, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1932; AIC; Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (medal); MMA (mem. exhib. including Childe Hassam); Vose Gal., Boston, 1975 (retrospective)

会员： ANA, 1912; NA, 1922; Allied AA; NYWCC; Paris AA; SC; AWCS; Brushians; NIAL

工作： Mem. Art Gal., Rochester; Buffalo FA Acad.; Brooklyn AM; Luxembourg Mus., Paris; Imperial Art Inst., Tokyo; Vose Gal., Boston.

评论： The son of a carver of ship figureheads, be became an Impressionist who lived and worked most of his life in France, especially in Brittany, beginning 1890-97. He was in Norway, c.1909-11; and Italy, c.1913; 1911-18, France; 1918-22, Stroudwater, ME; and again in France, 1923-33. He worked in oils and in hard point pastel, and was a member of the Old Lyme art colony. He also painted on Monhegan Island (ME). In Hartford, he taught at Art Soc. (now Hartford Art School). He began a summer school in Quebec in 1897 which lasted until at least 1899. He contributed articles on art to Farmington Magazine, c.1900. He left Old Lyme c.1918 and thereafter lived more abroad than in the U.S. His work was largely neglected, if not forgotten, because his sister stored his paintings away in an attic until its discovery in the mid 1970s.

来源： WW33; exhib. cat., Vose Gal., 1975; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 43, 183; Connecticut and American Impressionism 162 (w/repro.); Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 349; Art in Conn.: The Impressionist Years; Falk, Exh. Record Series.