James (1947) Griffiths Paintings & Artwork for Sale | James (1947) Griffiths Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 09, 2024
JAMES GRIFFITHS (America, 1947-), Portrait of the clipper "Flying Fish" of Boston., Watercolor on paper, 20.25" x 26.5" sight. Framed 31.5" x 37.5".
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JAMES GRIFFITHS America, 1947- Portrait of the clipper "Flying Fish" of Boston. Signed lower right "James Griffiths A.S.M.A.".
Eldred's
May. 28, 2024
JIM GRIFFITHS (B. 1947) WATERCOLOR/GOUACHE
Est: $1,000 - $1,200
Finley detailed painting of ship at sail. Signed and noted ASMA. Information verso identifies the ship as The American Clipper Flying fish and dates the painting 1994. Other information attached verso. Dimensions: (Frame) H 32" x W 37.5" (Sight) H 20" x W 26.5" Condition: Clean with good strong colors.
Westport Auction
Feb. 27, 2024
JAMES GRIFFITHS (America, 1947-), “Morning Haze”., Watercolor and gouache, 6.5” x 11” sight. Framed 14.75” x 18.5”.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JAMES GRIFFITHS America, 1947- "Morning Haze". Depicts a three-masted American-flagged ship and other vessels in the distance. Signed lower right "Jim Griffiths".
Eldred's
Nov. 30, 2023
JAMES GRIFFITHS (America, 1947-), “Breezy Day off Sandy Hook”, Watercolor and gouache, 6.75” x 11”. Framed 15” x 18.5”.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JAMES GRIFFITHS America, 1947- "Breezy Day off Sandy Hook", depicts a three-masted American-flagged ship meeting pilot boat #17. Signed lower right "James Griffiths". Titled and dated 1995 verso.
Eldred's
May. 14, 2023
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,300 - $1,600
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Apr. 07, 2023
JAMES GRIFFITHS (America, 1947-), “Morning Haze”, Watercolor and gouache, 6.5” x 11” sight. Framed 14.75” x 18.5”.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JAMES GRIFFITHS America, 1947- "Morning Haze", depicting a three-masted American-flagged ship and other vessels in the distance. Signed lower right "Jim Griffiths".
Eldred's
Mar. 01, 2023
JAMES GRIFFITHS (America, 1947-), “Breezy Day off Sandy Hook”., Watercolor and gouache, 6.75” x 11”. Framed 15” x 18.5”.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JAMES GRIFFITHS America, 1947- "Breezy Day off Sandy Hook". Depicts a three-masted American-flagged ship meeting pilot boat #17. Signed lower right "James Griffiths".
Eldred's
Feb. 12, 2023
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,350 - $1,700
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jan. 12, 2023
James (Jim) Griffiths (American, b. 1947) Hove-To at Sunrise, 1993 Gouache on pa
Est: $400 - $600
James (Jim) Griffiths (American, b. 1947) Hove-To at Sunrise, 1993 Gouache on paper 6-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches (15.9 x 27.3 cm) (sight) Signed lower right: Jim Griffiths PROVENANCE: Private collection, Chicago, Illinois. HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
Nov. 13, 2022
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,400 - $1,800
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Nov. 10, 2022
James (Jim) Griffiths (American, b. 1947) Hove-To at Sunrise, 1993 Gouache on pa
Est: $800 - $1,200
James (Jim) Griffiths (American, b. 1947) Hove-To at Sunrise, 1993 Gouache on paper 6-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches (15.9 x 27.3 cm) (sight) Signed lower right: Jim Griffiths PROVENANCE: Private collection, Chicago, Illinois. HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
Aug. 21, 2022
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,450 - $1,900
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
May. 08, 2022
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Feb. 06, 2022
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,600 - $2,000
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Nov. 14, 2021
James Griffiths (IL,b 1947) watercolor painting
Est: $1,600 - $2,000
ARTIST: James Griffiths (Illinois, born 1947) NAME: Sail Ship - Port Jackson (titled on verso) YEAR: 1977 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. SIGHT SIZE: 19 x 26 inches / 48 x 66 cm FRAME SIZE: 27 x 34 inches / 68 x 86 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Pat Whipple Gallery, Glenview, IL (has gallery label on verso) CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 119047 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Chicago-born Jim Griffiths' interest in art goes back to his early childhood when he spent a great deal of time drawing and painting. During high school years, summers were spent taking classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Griffiths continued his enthusiasm for art at Amherst College, graduating with a BFA in studio art. He then attended the Los Angeles Art Center College of Design, graduating with a degree in illustration.Returning to Chicago Griffiths worked for an industrial arts studio but soon left as the constraints on his art were too demanding. He pursued his own career as a landscape artist but very shortly made the decision to devote himself entirely to marine art and paint the subjects of ship and sea that he had been most interested in for many years.Over the years Griffiths has acquired a large nautical library of books, photographs, magazines, and ships' plans that are used extensively for research and accuracy of detail in the ships he paints. Authenticity and realism are important in creating technically accurate and historically correct paintings.Griffiths has several maritime subjects of special interest, one being the clipper ships of the second half of the 19th century, where this type of vessel was developed to its definitive form. Another area is U.S. Navy ships from the year 1898 onwards, but with emphasis on two time periods, the first from 1898 to 1909(the era of the Spanish-American War and the peacetime Great White Fleet) and from 1940 to the present.Quite a few of Griffiths' commissioned works are from clients who currently are or who have served in the U.S. Navy; they wish accurate portraits of the vessel(s) they served aboard or wish the depiction of some event in the history of the ship. In this regard, in 1989 Griffiths was approached by the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln(CVN-72) Commissioning Committee to do the official portrait of this carrier. Of great satisfaction to the artist was the fact that upon completion of the work the carrier's captain, executive officer, and air boss closely studied the painting of the ship for errors and found none. A limited edition print was made, signed by the artist, the ship's captain William Hayden, then-Secretary of the Navy Garret, and then-Governor of Illinois James Thompson, with the original painting being assigned aboard ship.To commemorate the Centennial Celebration of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service(the year 2000), the artist was invited by the U.S. Postal Service to do a series of paintings; five of the paintings would be printed as postage stamps as well as a sixth painting that would be incorporated into a specially created "Prestige Booklet" that held the stamps and encapsulated the history of the submarine. Not only did the artist have the honor of creating art for this first-of-its-kind booklet, but one of the paintings, that of the W.W. II Gato class sub, was the first double-wide stamp ever printed by the USPS.Griffiths has also done a series of nautical paintings that were used as box top art by the Revell/Monogram Model Company. The vessels portrayed vary from sailing ships to submarines to ocean liners to super carriers.In 2003 Griffiths won the prestigious Rudolph J. Shafer Maritime Heritage Award at the Mystic International Marine Art Exhibition. The award recognizes the one work in the show that вЂњbest documents our maritime heritage, past or present, for generations of the future.Griffiths has been an artist-member of the American Society of Marine Artists since 1985. He has exhibited his work in nautical galleries across the country and his paintings are in many private collections as well as in the corporate collections of such companies as KraftCo Corp. of Glenview, Ill., the Ebasco Corp. of Houston, Tx., and Jones & Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jul. 17, 2021
James Griffiths Watercolor on Paper "Cuttysark on Indian Ocean"
Est: $500 - $750
James Griffiths (b. 1947) Watercolor on Paper "Cuttysark on Indian Ocean", signed lower right Jim Griffiths, ASMA, matted and framed 7 in. x 11 in. Framed 15 in. x 18.5 in.
Rafael Osona Auctions
Jul. 20, 2017
JAMES GRIFFITHS, American, b. 1947, "Heading Down the Hudson"., Gouache on paper, 6.5" x 11". Framed 14" x 18".
Est: $800 - $1,200
JAMES GRIFFITHS American, b. 1947 "Heading Down the Hudson". Signed lower right "Griffiths AWS". Dated 2004. Titled on label verso for the Mystic Seaport Maritime Gallery. Gouache on paper, 6.5" x 11". Framed 14" x 18".
Eldred's
Oct. 15, 2016
JAMES GRIFFITHS, American, b. 1947, Pair of watercolors: "'The Rivals', clipper ships Ariel and Taeping"., Both 6.5" x 10.75" sight..
Est: $800 - $1,200
JAMES GRIFFITHS American, b. 1947 Pair of watercolors: "'The Rivals', clipper ships Ariel and Taeping". Each signed lower right "Jim Griffiths ASMA". Housed together in a single frame. Provenance: Private Collection, Connecticut. Both 6.5" x 10.75" sight. Framed 25.25" x 20.5".
Eldred's
Jul. 25, 2007
The Benvenue on the high seas
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
James Griffiths (American, b. 1947) TheBenvenueon the high seas signed and dated 'Jim Griffiths'78' (lower right) watercolor 18 x 26 in. (45.8 x 66 cm.)
Christie's