Edgar Britton
Illustration — Britton's mural Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use, on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Edgar Britton (1901-1982) was an American painter, muralist and sculptor born in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa, and he moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.
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- Born
- 1901 · Kearney.
- Died
- 1982 · Denver.
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- United States
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- painter · sculptor
- Education
- University of Iowa
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Illustration — Britton's mural Petroleum Industry: Distribution & Use, on display at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Edgar Britton (1901-1982) was an American painter, muralist and sculptor born in Kearney, Nebraska. He studied with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa, and he moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.
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For reasons of his health (he was diagnosed with tuberculosis), Britton relocated to Colorado in the early 1940s where he taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center until 1951.
• Illustration — Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1950, Colorado Springs, Colorado • Illustration — Petroleum Industry - Production, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939 • Illustration — Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939 • Illustration — Art Deco frescoes by Britton at front entrance of Bloom High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1935
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1901
Edgar Britton born at Kearney.
1982
Edgar Britton died at Denver.
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- 1.Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- 2.Edgar Britton Artists Modernism in the New City: Chicago Artists, 1920-1950. www.chicagomodern.org.
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