Lot 312: Walter Griffin (American 1861-1935)

Walter Griffin (American 1861-1935)
Old Lyme Landscape with Trees, 1907
Impressionist landscape depicting a stand of trees set along a sunlit hillside, with distant fields dissolving into a soft blue horizon; painted with Griffin’s characteristic broken brushwork and luminous palette, the scene combines crisp atmospheric light with textured impasto passages, especially in the foliage and rocky foreground
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated Walter Griffin 1907 at lower right
12″ x 16″

Presents well. craquelure. Varnish with streaking, Some possible inpainted to lower left corner, looks to be inpainting to sky.

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Estimate: $1000- $2000

Auction Date: January 1, 2026