Wilf Frank Griffiths (1917 – 2011) (1)

Attached below is an abridged biography courtesy of the Fine Art and Antiques website.

Wilfred Frank Griffiths [aka: W.F. Griffiths] was a Canadian painter born in 1917. Wilf was a talented artist who studied under the Group of Seven* member Franklin Carmichael at the Ontario College of Art* [Toronto]. For many years Wilf worked a full time job at Brewers Warehousing in Toronto and painted whenever he could in his spare time, but eventually he decided to take the leap and began painting full-time in 1974.

Wilf Griffiths was mainly a landscape painter with his own unique and colourful palette knife impressionist style. As a naturalist painter he was very impressed with Ontario's exp...