Frank J. Girardin (1856-1945)
Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856, Frank J. Girardin studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and with Noble, Duveneck, and Chatain. He spent his early career in Richmond, Indiana and lived briefly in New Orleans. He is mostly known for his landscape paintings, winning prizes for his exhibits at the Cincinnati Art Club (1903) and the Richmond Art Association (1912). Girardin died in 1945 in Redondo Beach, California.
Biographical information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.