Robert Griffing's entire collection of prints may be viewed on this site. Griffing studied illustration and design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and went on to enjoy a 30-year career in advertising. His lifelong interest of Native American and Colonial history was the result of growing up in Western Pennsylvania, where many historic eighteenth-century events took place.
Today Griffing paints the Native Americans of the Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands. His work has been included in educational packages, television historical documentaries, the covers of national magazines, and the Native American museums and cultural centers, including the 2007 exhibition, Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee & British Delegations at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Paintings depicting Forts Duquesne and Pitt, the Braddock Expedition, the Battle of Bushy Run, the Taking of Mary Jemison and other historical scenes have made Griffing a household name in the frontier circuit. He hopes that his paintings shed some light on this time period that has been neglected through society's romance with the American West. |