Born in Portland, Maine, Walter Griffin was the son of a painter and woodcarver, who fortunately encouraged his interests in fine art at an early age. Griffin accompanied his father on painting trips throughout Maine, later winning scholarships to study at the Boston Museum School and the National Academy of Design. To supplement his income during the four years he spent in New York, Griffin taught at the Society of Ethical Culture for Dr. Felix Adler. With Adler’s encouragement, the young artist went on to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Colarossi under Raphael Collin and at the École des Beaux-Arts under Jean Paul Laurens. He painted in Brittany from 1890 to 1897, where he adopted a more impressionistic style, before returning to the United States. Around this period, he had solo exhibitions in New York City at the Ferargil Galleries and in Boston at the St. Botolph Club.

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