Walter Griffin became active in the Old Lyme artists’ colony around 1905, forming lasting friendships and exhibiting with fellow painters Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Ernest Lawson and John Henry Twachtman. He began taking part in annual shows at the Pennsylvania Academy and the National Academy, which elected Griffin an Associate in 1912, before traveling abroad again in 1908. Griffin established a residence at 27 Quai des Grand-Augustins in Paris, and a few months later decided to join his friend, the painter William Singer, Jr., in Norway, where he became enamored with the grandeur of the country’s rugged, mountainous landscape. At this time he continued to work in an impressionist manner using broad, energetic strokes of color to capture stately pine trees clustered along rocky hillsides and meandering paths, elements seen in Norway, painted in 1910.

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