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DAVENPORT GRIFFEN was born at Millbrook, NY, in 1894. He studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago and with Mme. Exter in Paris, and his outstanding teachers were John Norton and George Oberteuffer. He has sketched and painted in Massachusetts, New York, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Porto Rico, Haiti, Cuba and the Virgin Islands, also in France and England. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Paris, Los Angeles, San Diego, Buffalo, St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Cedar Rapids, Omaha, Minneapolis, Ann Arbor, Toledo, St. Thomas (V. I.), Scranton, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and other cities. He has had one-artist exhibitions at the Chicago Woman's Aid, the Montross Gallery of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Increase Robinson's Studio Gallery, the Illinois Wesleyan University of Bloomington, Illinois, and the Cinema Theatre of Chicago. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and in various private collections. His work has been written about in Chicago and New York newspapers, the Literary Digest, the Paris Times, the American Magazine of Art, the Art Digest and the Christian Science Monitor. Critics who have commented on it are C. J. Bulliet, Eleanor Jewett, Daniel Catton Rich, Robert D. Andrews, Tom Vickerman, Margaret Breuning, E. A. Jewell, C. F. Kelley and Royal Cortissoz. He has won the following school awards: The Grand Prize for Composition, American Travel Scholarship, Grand Prize for Composition and the John Quincy Adams Scholarship. Since leaving school he has been awarded the Goodman 1st Prize, in an Art Students League Annual; the R.R. Jenkins Prize, in a Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition at the Art Institute; the Chicago Woman's Club Prize, in a Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Augustus Peabody Prize, in an American Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago; Honorable Mention in an International Lithograph Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Frank G. Logan Medal (Purchase), in a Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago; Fourth and Sixth purchase prizes at a Chicago Galleries Association Semi-Annual Exhibition, and the Silver Medal at an Annual Exhibition of the Chicago Society of Artists.