Joseph Griffiths

Joseph Griffiths

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This may be the Joseph Griffiths who was a mariner and merchant in New York City, and later the chairman of the Republican Party in New York in 1796. He was married twice, first to Sarah Leonard, on July 19, 1775, and then to Agness Van Wagenen, on April 11, 1781, in New York City.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.