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Born 1940 Pennsylvania. Known for: Super real Indian genre and figure painting, illustration.
Robert Griffing was born in 1940, growing up in Linesville, Pennsylvania. He. roamed the fields and beaches around Pymatuning Lake, collecting stone artifacts, which increased his love of history and... Read full biography
Robert Griffing was born in 1940, growing up in Linesville, Pennsylvania. He. roamed the fields and beaches around Pymatuning Lake, collecting stone artifacts, which increased his love of history and native cultures. Griffing is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, studying illustration.... Read full biography
Robert Griffing was born in 1940, growing up in Linesville, Pennsylvania. He. roamed the fields and beaches around Pymatuning Lake, collecting stone artifacts, which increased his love of history and native cultures. Griffing is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, studying illustration. After a thirty year career in advertising, he began to paint, in 1991, the Eastern Woodland Indian of the 18th century, an early fascination. His paintings focus on the time of chaos and uncertainty... Read full biography
Robert Griffing was born in 1940, growing up in Linesville, Pennsylvania. He. roamed the fields and beaches around Pymatuning Lake, collecting stone artifacts, which increased his love of history and native cultures. Griffing is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, studying illustration. After a thirty year career in advertising, he began to paint, in 1991, the Eastern Woodland Indian of the 18th century, an early fascination. His paintings focus on the time of chaos and uncertainty for the woodland tribes as they struggled to survive the encroachment of Europeans. Griffing's illustrational, photographic realism is minutely-detailed and tightly-blended. He is aided by an extensive library of books, historical papers, journals,... Read full biography
Robert Griffing was born in 1940, growing up in Linesville, Pennsylvania. He. roamed the fields and beaches around Pymatuning Lake, collecting stone artifacts, which increased his love of history and native cultures. Griffing is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, studying illustration. After a thirty year career in advertising, he began to paint, in 1991, the Eastern Woodland Indian of the 18th century, an early fascination. His paintings focus on the time of chaos and uncertainty for the woodland tribes as they struggled to survive the encroachment of Europeans. Griffing's illustrational, photographic realism is minutely-detailed and tightly-blended. He is aided by an extensive library of books, historical papers, journals, and his historian and other friends who provide information and act as models in some of his paintings.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Conte Crayon
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Exhibition of Museum
- •Masters of the American West, Autry Center