Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2007Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin)
25 pages (color)
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1827 - 1898 Boston. Known for: Landscape, marine, still life paintings.
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The... Read full biography
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he... Read full biography
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Albert Bierstadt before Bierstadt was well known. Griggs' earliest datable painting of a White Mountain scene is 1858. That year he exhibited three paintings, one of which was a White... Read full biography
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Albert Bierstadt before Bierstadt was well known. Griggs' earliest datable painting of a White Mountain scene is 1858. That year he exhibited three paintings, one of which was a White Mountain view (View on the Pemigewasset River), in an exhibition coordinated by Albert Bierstadt and held in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1863, as well as the Boston Art Club at various times. At... Read full biography
Known as a painter of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Samuel Griggs was listed as an architect in the Boston City directory from 1848 to 1852, and as an artist from 1854 until his death. The competency of his work strongly suggests that he had professional training, and it is believed that he studied under Albert Bierstadt before Bierstadt was well known. Griggs' earliest datable painting of a White Mountain scene is 1858. That year he exhibited three paintings, one of which was a White Mountain view (View on the Pemigewasset River), in an exhibition coordinated by Albert Bierstadt and held in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He also exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum from 1855 to 1863, as well as the Boston Art Club at various times. At the time of his death in 1898, he was living at #63 Studio Building, in Boston.
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Books & Publications (15)
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Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
2007The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesBoston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn88 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesVose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two
1997Vose Galleries35 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven Artists in the White Mountains,1830-1930
1988
(Exhibition catalog)McGrath, Robert/B J McAdam99 pages (color)Rediscovering Some New England Artists, 1875-1900
1987Kristiansen, Rolf and John J. Leahy316 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesThe New England Fisheries A Treasure Greater than Gold
1984Johnston, Paul Forsythe52 pages (color)The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
1980
(Exhibition catalog)Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III325 pages (color)National Parks and the American Landscape
1972Taylor, Joshua141 pages (color)Hudson River School
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Genesco, S U College, New York200 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pages