Louis Oscar Griffith (1875–1956) was an American painter known for his paintings, etchings, and aquatints of landscapes, especially of scenes in Brown County, Indiana, and Texas.
He was born in Newcastle, Indiana in 1875, but five years later moved with his family to Dallas, Texas, where, in his teens, he took art lessons in landscape artist's Frank Reaugh's studio and traveled with Reaugh and other students on sketching exhibitions in West Texas.
[2] In 1908, he traveled in France and England, painting, making sketches for prints and honing his printmaking skills.
Griffith had joined the Palette and Chisel Club, which took sketching trips in the outdoors, and, at the suggestion of one of its members in 1907 had visited Brown County, Indiana.
During the cold Hoosier winters between 1926 and 1930, Griffith made return trips to Texas,[3] where he had sketched his earliest landscapes under the guidance of Frank Reaugh.