Background
Griffin, Walter was born on January 14, 1861 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Edward Souther and Lydia (Libby) Griffin.
Griffin, Walter was born on January 14, 1861 in Portland, Maine, United States. Son of Edward Souther and Lydia (Libby) Griffin.
Studied at Boston Music.
He moved to Paris in 1887, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon of 1889. In 1890 he settled in Fleury, where he traveled and painted in Barbizon area. By the late the 1890s, he opened the Walter Griffin"s Summer Painting School in Quebec City, Canada, and in 1898 began teaching at the Art Society of Hartford, Connecticut, moving to Old Lyme, Connecticut, in 1904.
After his divorce in 1908, he passed the years 1909-1918 in Europe, returning to Portland, Maine"s Stroudwater neighborhood from 1918-1922, then living in France from 1923-1933.
In 1933 he returned to Portland, where he lived until his death.
Member National Institute of Arts and Letters.