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William Davenport Griffen (1894 Millbrook, New York - 1986 San Rafael, California) was an American artist and muralist.
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Education
He graduated from Iowa State University and studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1928, he won the $750 John Quincy Adams scholarship to the Art Institute.
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Career
He worked for the Illinois Works Progress Administration. He painted a mural at the Flora, Illinois post office, Good News and Bad, in 1937. He painted a second WPA post office mural in Carmi, Illinois titled Service to the Farmer, in 1939. His works are displayed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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References
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External links
- http://www.richardnortongallery.com/?loc=artists&id=670
- http://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/874/Griffen/William
- http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/aic/exhibitions/1930/1931.html
- "Davenport Griffen Has Good Paintings in Current Show", Chicago Daily Tribune, Eleanor Jewett, December 12, 1929
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