Edgar Britton
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 moved to Chicago where he studied and worked with Edgar Miller. There he began painting murals, many as WPA projects.[1]
For reasons of his health he relocated to Colorado in the early 1940s where he taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center until 1951.[2]
Gallery[]
Orpheus and Eurydice, c. 1950, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Petroleum Industry - Production, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
Petroleum Industry - Distribution & Use, mural, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., 1939
Art Deco frescoes by Britton at front entrance of Bloom High School, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1935
References[]
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- ^ http://www.chicagomodern.org/artists/edgar_britton
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