Draft:Geoff Flavelle

G.H. Flavelle (1868 – 1945) was a painter and China decorator. Born in Philadelphia. He is known for watercolor and other paintings of landscapes, seascapes, woodland interiors and windmills. He started his career as a glass and china decoration.

George studied art at the Pennsylvania Watercolor School. Before that, he completed night classes at the Spring Garden Schoo, winning first prize in competition. He resided in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, PA, and Alden, PA.

He started decorating glass and china while working at an art publishing house. This led him to explore other pathways and he decided to paint without commission. His work often depicted Fall and Spring landscapes with streams or windmills. His work was exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, with records of such exhibitions dating from 1907 to 1917 in various locations in Brooklyn, New York including at Abraham & Straus (A&S), Charles Kuhn Company, Frederick Loeser & Co., The William Hengerer Company, and Wanamaker's (John Wanamaker, formerly A.T. Stewart & Co.).

He was not very prolific and his work rarely comes up at auction.

His work is mentioned in a number of artist reference material including Roger Dunbier's "The Artists Bluebook -34,000 North American Artists to March 2005" and Edan Hughes' "Artists in California 1786-1940". His work is also included in the "Inventory of American Paintings Artist Names" by the National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), 1983 and the "Library of Congress Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part Four, Works of Art from 1931".

Note that he is often incorrectly listed as'Geoff' or 'Favelle' and an incorrect birth date of 1863.

Flavelle's work include:


 * Fall landscape with stream
 * The Old Farm Connecticut
 * Woods interior landscape