Pioneer Lantern
LeRoy Griffith
c. 1941
Medium
watercolor and graphite on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 35.4 x 24.6 cm (13 15/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Index of American Design
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Index of American Design
Accession Number
1943.8.12261
About the Artist
LeRoy Griffith
LeRoy Griffith is an artist whose biographical details remain largely undocumented. With no confirmed dates of birth or death and no firmly established national or regional affiliation, the full story of his artistic formation and career has yet to be recovered from the historical record. The works attributed to Griffith that survive in museum collections attest to a practitioner with genuine ski...