Lot 315
Louis Oscar Griffith (American, 1875-1956, active New Orleans, 1916-1917), "Charcoal Schooners", c. 1916-17, oil on masonite, signed lower left, titled on artist label, and bearing an April 1934 exhibition label from "Ninth Region Indiana Division / Educational Circuit Exhibit" en verso, 30 in. x 36 in., in a period giltwood frame. Note: L.O. Griffith spent the winter of 1916-17 in New Orleans with fellow artist Robert Wadsworth Grafton, during which time the St. Charles Hotel commissioned the artists to paint work for the hotel. The artists found inspiration in the architecture, waterways and people of the city. As is apparent in the works Griffith painted in New Orleans, a favored subject seems to have been the New Basin Canal. His scenes of this historic waterway that traversed the city are his most painterly and impressionistic. The especially large composition offered here is brilliantly rendered with lovely brushwork, strong light and reflection. The hotel created a booklet "Souvenir of New Orleans, The Paris of America" which reproduced the paintings created during this time.
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