# Louis Oscar Griffith artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:36:06.183Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Etching, Aquatint

## About Louis Oscar Griffith

Louis Oscar Griffith (1875–1956) was an American painter and printmaker best known for landscapes. His documented media include painting, etching, and aquatint, with subjects associated especially with Brown County, Indiana, and Texas. Griffith spent part of his youth in Dallas, where he studied with landscape artist Frank Reaugh and joined sketching trips in West Texas. He later pursued formal art training in St. Louis and Chicago and worked as a commercial artist. Collectors may encounter his name on both unique paintings and printed landscape images, making the medium and production method important parts of identification. The available sources establish his American identity, lifespan, and landscape focus, but they do not provide institution-grade support for assigning him to a specific formal movement. Exact birth and death dates also remain withheld here because the collected sources do not corroborate them consistently at the preferred authority level.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Griffith most commonly include landscape paintings, etchings, and aquatints. Documented subjects include scenery connected with Brown County, Indiana, and Texas, reflecting his sustained interest in American landscape. Paintings are unique objects, while etchings and aquatints are printmaking media and may require edition-specific examination. The collected sources do not establish a complete catalogue of subjects, print editions, or formal series, so unfamiliar works should be evaluated from their physical characteristics and documentation rather than assumed to belong to a known series.

## Market and appraisal context

Griffith’s market should be assessed by comparing like with like: a painting should not be evaluated against an etching or aquatint without accounting for the different medium. Landscape subject matter and geographic associations, particularly Brown County and Texas, may also help narrow the most relevant comparable works. Appraisily’s collected input indicates a substantial auction-record presence, but the public page was rate-limited during research and no individual lots were inspected. Accordingly, this profile makes no claim about price direction or record values. A work-specific appraisal should verify attribution, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any edition information before using public sale dates, realized prices, or comparable lots.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3262829
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/283757206/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012151015
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Oscar_Griffith
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Oscar_Griffith
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/louis-oscar-griffith/