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|  The following biography is based on information provided by Louie Reodica whose source is Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940":
Born in Cork, Ireland, James Griffin was an active artist in the Bay Area of Northern California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In Ireland, he was a pupil of James Brennon at the Cork School of Art and immigrated to San Francisco in 1885. He established a home in Oakland at 3343 Chestnut, and from 1912 to 1915 taught painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts. He died in Amadore County California in 1931. |
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James Griffin is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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