# Walter Griffin artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:50:54.887Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1861-01-14
- Death date: 1935-05-18
- Nationality: American
- Movements: American Impressionism, Old Lyme art colony, Barbizon-school influence and context
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Walter Griffin](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Walter_Griffin_by_Dennis_Miller_Bunker.jpg)
Dennis Miller Bunker · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Griffin_by_Dennis_Miller_Bunker.jpg

## About Walter Griffin

Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin (1861–1935) was an American painter best known for landscape subjects. Public authority data identifies him as Walter Griffin, while biographical sources supply his fuller name and connect his practice with Impressionism. A French-language biography places him within the Old Lyme art-colony context and describes sustained attention to scenery in New England—especially Maine and Connecticut—as well as France, Norway, Italy, and Quebec. His time in France also brought him into contact with the landscape tradition associated with the Barbizon school. For collectors, Griffin is therefore most readily encountered through paintings whose subject is place: rural terrain, regional views, and landscapes shaped by travel between the United States and Europe. That geographic range can be useful when comparing a work’s subject and date with his documented career. Because Walter Griffin is not a unique personal name, cataloguing should preserve the full form Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin and confirm the artist against stable authority identifiers before matching auction records.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings are the clearest documented work type associated with Griffin. Collectors may encounter views connected with Maine, Connecticut, and the broader New England region, together with landscapes reflecting his residence and travel in France and visits to Norway, Italy, and Quebec. The supplied evidence does not establish a recurring market in prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, or other media, so those categories should not be assigned without object-level evidence.

## Market and appraisal context

Collectors should first confirm that a work is by Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin, since the shorter name Walter Griffin can identify other people. Within his documented landscape practice, comparisons are most meaningful when they align in subject, geography, and approximate date, particularly for New England or French views. Appraisily has a name-linked auction-record signal for the artist, but the collected pack did not expose individual lots, realized prices, dimensions, condition, provenance, or attribution notes. Those lot-level details require verification before drawing an appraisal conclusion. The available identity and biographical sources support describing Griffin as an American painter associated with Impressionism and landscape; they do not support a price prediction or market-trend claim.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity and lot-level attribution should be verified before auction records are treated as evidence for appraisal.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17088212
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500024634
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96008331
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.39574.html
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/19575559/
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000067045052
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/33806
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Griffin_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Griffin_(peintre)
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86