Artist’s admiration of Indians of the East shows in his work
Robert Griffing will be on hand at the Butler museum’s annual art sale this weekend.
As a youth, artist Robert Griffing loved to hunt for American Indian artifacts.
He’d comb the cornfields of his boyhood home in Linesville, Crawford County, Pa., and he’d wander the shoreline of nearby Pymatuning Lake in search of Indian weaponry and tools.
His expeditions yielded bountiful results, and he soon had a vast collection of arrowheads and stone implements once used by the Seneca and other tribes of the area.
What he also had was a growing curiosity and appreciation for the American Indians who once inhabited the Great Lakes region.
To express his admiration, he began sketching and painting Eastern Indians.
