Louis Oscar (L.O.) Griffith Indiana (1875 - 1956) landscape with trees oil Signed lower left. Louis Oscar Griffith was born on October 10, 1875 in Greencastle, Indiana. In addition to etching, he was a painter of realistic landscape, portrait and genre, painting with Impressionist-influenced color and broad, relatively loose brushwork. Griffith moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1893 to attend the St. Louis School of Fine Arts (attendance not confirmed by school records); he studied in Dallas with Frank Reaugh c. 1890; 1895-1896, 1896-1897, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the evenings; in 1908 in Paris and Brittany; as well as the National Academy of Design. Griffith, over the years, lived at various residences including 1875-1879 Greencastle, Indiana; 1879-1893 Dallas, Texas; 1893-1896 St. Louis; 1896-1922 Chicago; 1922-1956 Nashville, Indiana. 18 1/4"H x 18 1/2"W(sight), 25 1/4"H x 25 1/2"W(frame)