John Warner Norton

Of Lockport. Norton's study of law at Harvard University was broken off when the family's firm went bankrupt. Before, and after a period of living as a cowboy and enlisting with the Rough Riders, he studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago (1897, 1899–1901); he would later teach there. His students included Frances Badger. He was influenced by the Armory Show and the Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai. Paul, Minnesota city hall; twelve murals comprising The History of Mankind (1923) at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College, in Wisconsin; and his first major mural in Chicago's Cliff Dwellers Club (1909), where he was a founding member. Norton was married and had a son and two daughters. At the time of his death on January 7, 1934, in Charleston, South Carolina of cancer, he was a popular and respected artist. • Illustration — Ceres (1930) • Illustration — "Keep these off the U.S.A", World War I Liberty Bonds poster • Illustration — December 1902 cover of The Inland Printer magazine

• Name — John Warner Norton • Born — 7 March 1876 • Birthplace — Lockport, Illinois • Died — 7 January 1934 • Place of death — Charleston, South Carolina • Education — Harvard University, Art Institute of Chicago • Known for — Painter and muralist • Father — John Lyman Norton • Mother — Ada Clara Gooding Norton