TitleEdward F. Rook
Artist
Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin
(American, 1861 - 1935)
Date1908
MediumOil on canvas mounted on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 29 × 25 in.
SignedSigned upper right: "To my friend / Edward F. Rook / Walter Griffin"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, November 9, 1908
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number514-P
Label TextRook first visited Old Lyme, Connecticut in 1903, and established his permanent residence there in 1905. Although Griffin was exclusively a painter of landscapes in the first years of his career, he had executed portraits and so was able-and clearly willing-to help his friends meet the requirement of election to the Academy.
